Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats

From: Shailabh Nagar
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 20:12:11 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:11:59 -0400
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



static inline void taskstats_exit_alloc(struct taskstats **ptidstats)
{
*ptidstats = NULL;
- if (taskstats_has_listeners())
+ if (!list_empty(&get_cpu_var(listener_list)))
*ptidstats = kmem_cache_zalloc(taskstats_cache, SLAB_KERNEL);
+ put_cpu_var(listener_list);
}



It's time to uninline this function..



static inline void taskstats_exit_free(struct taskstats *tidstats)
Index: linux-2.6.17-mm3equiv/kernel/taskstats.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-mm3equiv.orig/kernel/taskstats.c 2006-06-30 23:38:39.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm3equiv/kernel/taskstats.c 2006-07-02 00:16:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <net/genetlink.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>

@@ -26,6 +28,9 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(__u32, taskstats_s
static int family_registered = 0;
kmem_cache_t *taskstats_cache;

+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head, listener_list);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rw_semaphore, listener_list_sem);



Which will permit listener_list to become static - it wasn't a good name
for a global anyway.

I suggest you implement a new

struct whatever {
struct rw_semaphore sem;
struct list_head list;
};


Ok. The listener_list was a global to allow taskstats_exit_alloc to access but this is better.

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct whatever, listener_aray);




static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
void **replyp, size_t size)
{
@@ -77,6 +92,8 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_inf
static int send_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, pid_t pid, int event)
{
struct genlmsghdr *genlhdr = nlmsg_data((struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data);
+ struct rw_semaphore *sem;
+ struct list_head *p, *head;
void *reply;
int rc;

@@ -88,9 +105,30 @@ static int send_reply(struct sk_buff *sk
return rc;
}

- if (event == TASKSTATS_MSG_MULTICAST)
- return genlmsg_multicast(skb, pid, TASKSTATS_LISTEN_GROUP);
- return genlmsg_unicast(skb, pid);
+ if (event == TASKSTATS_MSG_UNICAST)
+ return genlmsg_unicast(skb, pid);
+
+ /*
+ * Taskstats multicast is unicasts to listeners who have registered
+ * interest in this cpu
+ */
+ sem = &get_cpu_var(listener_list_sem);
+ head = &get_cpu_var(listener_list);



This has a double preempt_disable(), but the above will fix that.



+ down_read(sem);
+ list_for_each(p, head) {
+ int ret;
+ struct listener *s = list_entry(p, struct listener, list);
+ ret = genlmsg_unicast(skb, s->pid);
+ if (ret)
+ rc = ret;
+ }
+ up_read(sem);
+
+ put_cpu_var(listener_list);
+ put_cpu_var(listener_list_sem);
+
+ return rc;
}

static int fill_pid(pid_t pid, struct task_struct *pidtsk,
@@ -201,8 +239,73 @@ ret:
return;
}

+static int add_del_listener(pid_t pid, cpumask_t *maskp, int isadd)
+{
+ struct listener *s;
+ unsigned int cpu, mycpu;
+ cpumask_t mask;
+ struct rw_semaphore *sem;
+ struct list_head *head, *p;

-static int taskstats_send_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
+ memcpy(&mask, maskp, sizeof(cpumask_t));
+ if (cpus_empty(mask))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ mycpu = get_cpu();
+ put_cpu();



This is effectively raw_smp_processor_id(). And after the put_cpu(),
`mycpu' is meaningless.


Hmm.



+ if (isadd == REGISTER) {
+ for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask) {
+ if (!cpu_possible(cpu))
+ continue;
+ if (cpu == mycpu)
+ preempt_disable();
+
+ sem = &per_cpu(listener_list_sem, cpu);
+ head = &per_cpu(listener_list, cpu);
+
+ s = kmalloc(sizeof(struct listener), GFP_KERNEL);



Cannot do GFP_KERNEL inside preempt_disable().

There's no easy solution to this problem. GFP_ATOMIC is not a good fix at
all. One approach would be to run lock_cpu_hotplug(), then allocate (with
GFP_KERNEL) all the memory which will be needed within the locked region,
then take the lock, then use that preallocated memory.


You should use kmalloc_node() here, to ensure that the memory on each CPU's
list resides with that CPU's local memory (not _this_ CPU's local memory).


Ok.



+ if (!s)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ s->pid = pid;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->list);
+
+ down_write(sem);
+ list_add(&s->list, head);
+ up_write(sem);
+
+ if (cpu == mycpu)
+ preempt_enable();



Actually, I don't understand the tricks which are going on with the local CPU here. What's it all for?


I was wanting to do a get_cpu_var for listener_list & sem
for the current cpu and per_cpu otherwise (since thats what I thought was the recommendation
for accessing the local cpu's variable). Perhaps the preempt_disable is uncalled for ?





+ }
+ } else {
+ for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask) {
+ struct list_head *tmp;
+
+ if (!cpu_possible(cpu))
+ continue;



I guess you could just do cpus_and(mask, cpus_possible_map) on entry.


Yup !




+ if (cpu == mycpu)
+ preempt_disable();
+
+ sem = &per_cpu(listener_list_sem, cpu);
+ head = &per_cpu(listener_list, cpu);
+
+ down_write(sem);
+ list_for_each_safe(p, tmp, head) {
+ s = list_entry(p, struct listener, list);
+ if (s->pid == pid) {
+ list_del(&s->list);



kfree(s);



Oops.



+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ up_write(sem);
+
+ if (cpu == mycpu)
+ preempt_enable();
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
{
int rc = 0;
struct sk_buff *rep_skb;
@@ -210,6 +313,21 @@ static int taskstats_send_stats(struct s
void *reply;
size_t size;
struct nlattr *na;
+ cpumask_t mask;
+
+ if (info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASK]) {
+ na = info->attrs[TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_REGISTER_CPUMASK];
+ cpulist_parse((char *)nla_data(na), mask);



OK, so we're passing in an ASCII string. Fair enough, I think. Paul would
know better.




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