From d6ecbcd70fffcffe79d45f3be7b8fcf5d8e04a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 08:15:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mm: vmscan: add shrinker_srcu_generation" This reverts commit 475733dda5aedba9e086379aafe6b5ffd53e8f5e. 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/20230609081518.3039120-6-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/vmscan.c | 24 ++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index d1d309f..50775b7 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ int vm_swappiness = 60; LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list); DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem); DEFINE_SRCU(shrinker_srcu); -static atomic_t shrinker_srcu_generation = ATOMIC_INIT(0); #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG static int shrinker_nr_max; @@ -818,7 +817,6 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation); synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id); @@ -840,7 +838,6 @@ void synchronize_shrinkers(void) { down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation); synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_shrinkers); @@ -950,20 +947,18 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, { struct shrinker_info *info; unsigned long ret, freed = 0; - int srcu_idx, generation; - int i = 0; + int srcu_idx; + int i; if (!mem_cgroup_online(memcg)) return 0; -again: srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu); info = shrinker_info_srcu(memcg, nid); if (unlikely(!info)) goto unlock; - generation = atomic_read(&shrinker_srcu_generation); - for_each_set_bit_from(i, info->map, info->map_nr_max) { + for_each_set_bit(i, info->map, info->map_nr_max) { struct shrink_control sc = { .gfp_mask = gfp_mask, .nid = nid, @@ -1009,11 +1004,6 @@ again: set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, i); } freed += ret; - if (atomic_read(&shrinker_srcu_generation) != generation) { - srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); - i++; - goto again; - } } unlock: srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); @@ -1053,7 +1043,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, { unsigned long ret, freed = 0; struct shrinker *shrinker; - int srcu_idx, generation; + int srcu_idx; /* * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled @@ -1067,7 +1057,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu); - generation = atomic_read(&shrinker_srcu_generation); list_for_each_entry_srcu(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list, srcu_read_lock_held(&shrinker_srcu)) { struct shrink_control sc = { @@ -1080,11 +1069,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY) ret = 0; freed += ret; - - if (atomic_read(&shrinker_srcu_generation) != generation) { - freed = freed ? : 1; - break; - } } srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); -- 2.7.4