locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:58:57 +0000 (11:58 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:15:10 +0000 (09:15 +0100)
commitdcb786493f3e48da3272b710028d42ec608cfda1
tree9058d4cfc8c638f8e1799f0c24b48d18fc7f0262
parent77e9971c79c29542ab7dd4140f9343bf2ff36158
locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code

Rewrite the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation so that the saturation
point is moved to INT_MIN / 2. This allows us to defer the sanity checks
until after the atomic operation, which removes many uses of cmpxchg()
in favour of atomic_fetch_{add,sub}().

Some crude perf results obtained from lkdtm show substantially less
overhead, despite the checking:

 $ perf stat -r 3 -B -- echo {ATOMIC,REFCOUNT}_TIMING >/sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT

 # arm64
 ATOMIC_TIMING:                                      46.50451 +- 0.00134 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.00% )
 REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline):          77.57522 +- 0.00982 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.01% )
 REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, this series):       48.7181  +- 0.0256  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.05% )

 # x86
 ATOMIC_TIMING:                                      31.6225 +- 0.0776 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.25% )
 REFCOUNT_TIMING (!REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline/x86 asm): 31.6689 +- 0.0901 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.28% )
 REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, mainline):          53.203  +- 0.138  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.26% )
 REFCOUNT_TIMING (REFCOUNT_FULL, this series):       31.7408 +- 0.0486 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.15% )

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@marvell.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191121115902.2551-6-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/refcount.h