markers: re-enable fast batch registration

Lai Jiangshan discovered a reentrancy issue with markers and fixed it by
adding synchronize_sched() calls at each registration/unregistraiton.

It works, but it removes the ability to do batch
registration/unregistration and can cause registration of ~100 markers
to take about 30 seconds on a loaded machine (synchronize_sched() is
much slower on such workloads).

This patch implements a version of the fix which won't slow down marker batch
registration/unregistration. It also go back to the original non-synchronized
reg/unreg.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/marker.c b/kernel/marker.c
index fe5ca72..05a2577 100644
--- a/kernel/marker.c
+++ b/kernel/marker.c
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ struct marker_entry {
 	struct marker_probe_closure single;
 	struct marker_probe_closure *multi;
 	int refcount;	/* Number of times armed. 0 if disarmed. */
+	struct rcu_head rcu;
+	void *oldptr;
+	unsigned char rcu_pending:1;
 	unsigned char ptype:1;
 	char name[0];	/* Contains name'\0'format'\0' */
 };
@@ -196,6 +199,16 @@ void marker_probe_cb_noarg(const struct marker *mdata, void *call_private, ...)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(marker_probe_cb_noarg);
 
+static void free_old_closure(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct marker_entry *entry = container_of(head,
+		struct marker_entry, rcu);
+	kfree(entry->oldptr);
+	/* Make sure we free the data before setting the pending flag to 0 */
+	smp_wmb();
+	entry->rcu_pending = 0;
+}
+
 static void debug_print_probes(struct marker_entry *entry)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -404,6 +417,7 @@ static struct marker_entry *add_marker(const char *name, const char *format)
 	e->multi = NULL;
 	e->ptype = 0;
 	e->refcount = 0;
+	e->rcu_pending = 0;
 	hlist_add_head(&e->hlist, head);
 	return e;
 }
@@ -433,6 +447,9 @@ static int remove_marker(const char *name)
 	if (e->single.func != __mark_empty_function)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	hlist_del(&e->hlist);
+	/* Make sure the call_rcu has been executed */
+	if (e->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
 	kfree(e);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -462,8 +479,12 @@ static int marker_set_format(struct marker_entry **entry, const char *format)
 	e->multi = (*entry)->multi;
 	e->ptype = (*entry)->ptype;
 	e->refcount = (*entry)->refcount;
+	e->rcu_pending = 0;
 	hlist_add_before(&e->hlist, &(*entry)->hlist);
 	hlist_del(&(*entry)->hlist);
+	/* Make sure the call_rcu has been executed */
+	if ((*entry)->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
 	kfree(*entry);
 	*entry = e;
 	trace_mark(core_marker_format, "name %s format %s",
@@ -637,6 +658,12 @@ int marker_probe_register(const char *name, const char *format,
 			goto end;
 		}
 	}
+	/*
+	 * If we detect that a call_rcu is pending for this marker,
+	 * make sure it's executed now.
+	 */
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
 	old = marker_entry_add_probe(entry, probe, probe_private);
 	if (IS_ERR(old)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(old);
@@ -644,11 +671,16 @@ int marker_probe_register(const char *name, const char *format,
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);
 	marker_update_probes();		/* may update entry */
-	synchronize_sched();
-	kfree(old);
 	mutex_lock(&markers_mutex);
 	entry = get_marker(name);
 	WARN_ON(!entry);
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
+	entry->oldptr = old;
+	entry->rcu_pending = 1;
+	/* write rcu_pending before calling the RCU callback */
+	smp_wmb();
+	call_rcu_sched(&entry->rcu, free_old_closure);
 end:
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);
 	return ret;
@@ -678,15 +710,22 @@ int marker_probe_unregister(const char *name,
 	entry = get_marker(name);
 	if (!entry)
 		goto end;
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
 	old = marker_entry_remove_probe(entry, probe, probe_private);
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);
 	marker_update_probes();		/* may update entry */
-	synchronize_sched();
-	kfree(old);
 	mutex_lock(&markers_mutex);
 	entry = get_marker(name);
 	if (!entry)
 		goto end;
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
+	entry->oldptr = old;
+	entry->rcu_pending = 1;
+	/* write rcu_pending before calling the RCU callback */
+	smp_wmb();
+	call_rcu_sched(&entry->rcu, free_old_closure);
 	remove_marker(name);	/* Ignore busy error message */
 	ret = 0;
 end:
@@ -752,14 +791,21 @@ int marker_probe_unregister_private_data(marker_probe_func *probe,
 		ret = -ENOENT;
 		goto end;
 	}
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
 	old = marker_entry_remove_probe(entry, NULL, probe_private);
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);
 	marker_update_probes();		/* may update entry */
-	synchronize_sched();
-	kfree(old);
 	mutex_lock(&markers_mutex);
 	entry = get_marker_from_private_data(probe, probe_private);
 	WARN_ON(!entry);
+	if (entry->rcu_pending)
+		rcu_barrier_sched();
+	entry->oldptr = old;
+	entry->rcu_pending = 1;
+	/* write rcu_pending before calling the RCU callback */
+	smp_wmb();
+	call_rcu_sched(&entry->rcu, free_old_closure);
 	remove_marker(entry->name);	/* Ignore busy error message */
 end:
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);