From 1a554ecc971406e291cea867112f7f2e377e810e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 08:15:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mm: shrinkers: make count and scan in shrinker debugfs lockless" This reverts commit 20cd1892fcc3efc10a7ac327cc3790494bec46b5. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. We will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-5-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/shrinker_debug.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shrinker_debug.c b/mm/shrinker_debug.c index 2be15b8..3ab53fa 100644 --- a/mm/shrinker_debug.c +++ b/mm/shrinker_debug.c @@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ #include #include #include -#include /* defined in vmscan.c */ extern struct rw_semaphore shrinker_rwsem; extern struct list_head shrinker_list; -extern struct srcu_struct shrinker_srcu; static DEFINE_IDA(shrinker_debugfs_ida); static struct dentry *shrinker_debugfs_root; @@ -51,13 +49,18 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) struct mem_cgroup *memcg; unsigned long total; bool memcg_aware; - int ret = 0, nid, srcu_idx; + int ret, nid; count_per_node = kcalloc(nr_node_ids, sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); if (!count_per_node) return -ENOMEM; - srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu); + ret = down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem); + if (ret) { + kfree(count_per_node); + return ret; + } + rcu_read_lock(); memcg_aware = shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE; @@ -88,7 +91,8 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) } } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL); - srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); + rcu_read_unlock(); + up_read(&shrinker_rwsem); kfree(count_per_node); return ret; @@ -111,8 +115,9 @@ static ssize_t shrinker_debugfs_scan_write(struct file *file, .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL, }; struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL; - int nid, srcu_idx; + int nid; char kbuf[72]; + ssize_t ret; read_len = size < (sizeof(kbuf) - 1) ? size : (sizeof(kbuf) - 1); if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, read_len)) @@ -141,7 +146,11 @@ static ssize_t shrinker_debugfs_scan_write(struct file *file, return -EINVAL; } - srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu); + ret = down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem); + if (ret) { + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + return ret; + } sc.nid = nid; sc.memcg = memcg; @@ -150,7 +159,7 @@ static ssize_t shrinker_debugfs_scan_write(struct file *file, shrinker->scan_objects(shrinker, &sc); - srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); + up_read(&shrinker_rwsem); mem_cgroup_put(memcg); return size; -- 2.7.4