sched: Move mmdrop to RCU on RT

mmdrop() is invoked from finish_task_switch() by the incoming task to drop
the mm which was handed over by the previous task. mmdrop() can be quite
expensive which prevents an incoming real-time task from getting useful
work done.

Provide mmdrop_sched() which maps to mmdrop() on !RT kernels. On RT kernels
it delagates the eventually required invocation of __mmdrop() to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.648582026@linutronix.de

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 7f8ee09c711f411cfd3198333d68f8995437b463..e9672de22cf28eee7a9852456acfa64f3b7f826e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/uprobes.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/page-flags-layout.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/seqlock.h>
@@ -572,6 +573,9 @@ struct mm_struct {
                bool tlb_flush_batched;
 #endif
                struct uprobes_state uprobes_state;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+               struct rcu_head delayed_drop;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
                atomic_long_t hugetlb_usage;
 #endif

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index 5561486fddef7a31675958319a240a9369e2bdd7..aca874d33fe6e541eee8d369fdd23431d9446e46 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -49,6 +49,35 @@ static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
                __mmdrop(mm);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+/*
+ * RCU callback for delayed mm drop. Not strictly RCU, but call_rcu() is
+ * by far the least expensive way to do that.
+ */
+static inline void __mmdrop_delayed(struct rcu_head *rhp)
+{
+       struct mm_struct *mm = container_of(rhp, struct mm_struct, delayed_drop);
+
+       __mmdrop(mm);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Invoked from finish_task_switch(). Delegates the heavy lifting on RT
+ * kernels via RCU.
+ */
+static inline void mmdrop_sched(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+       /* Provides a full memory barrier. See mmdrop() */
+       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->mm_count))
+               call_rcu(&mm->delayed_drop, __mmdrop_delayed);
+}
+#else
+static inline void mmdrop_sched(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+       mmdrop(mm);
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * mmget() - Pin the address space associated with a &struct mm_struct.
  * @mm: The address space to pin.

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 95f4e16f98a24dec40dbbc1c089ea15deb38d281..9eaeba671001afd522284978c3bb881da8367cec 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4836,7 +4836,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
         */
        if (mm) {
                membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm);
-               mmdrop(mm);
+               mmdrop_sched(mm);
        }
        if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) {
                if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)