Re: [PATCH 3/6] sched: add a few helpers to wake up tasks on the current cpu

From: Andrei Vagin
Date: Wed Feb 15 2023 - 15:15:54 EST


Peter,

Could you take a look at this patch? I think I addressed comments that
you left to the previous version. Thanks.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 7:04 PM Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add complete_on_current_cpu, wake_up_poll_on_current_cpu helpers to wake
> up tasks on the current CPU.
>
> These two helpers are useful when the task needs to make a synchronous context
> switch to another task. In this context, synchronous means it wakes up the
> target task and falls asleep right after that.
>
> One example of such workloads is seccomp user notifies. This mechanism allows
> the supervisor process handles system calls on behalf of a target process.
> While the supervisor is handling an intercepted system call, the target process
> will be blocked in the kernel, waiting for a response to come back.
>
> On-CPU context switches are much faster than regular ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/completion.h | 1 +
> include/linux/swait.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/wait.h | 3 +++
> kernel/sched/completion.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
> kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> kernel/sched/swait.c | 8 ++++----
> kernel/sched/wait.c | 5 +++++
> 7 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/completion.h b/include/linux/completion.h
> index 62b32b19e0a8..fb2915676574 100644
> --- a/include/linux/completion.h
> +++ b/include/linux/completion.h
> @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ extern bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x);
> extern bool completion_done(struct completion *x);
>
> extern void complete(struct completion *);
> +extern void complete_on_current_cpu(struct completion *x);
> extern void complete_all(struct completion *);
>
> #endif
> diff --git a/include/linux/swait.h b/include/linux/swait.h
> index 6a8c22b8c2a5..d324419482a0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swait.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swait.h
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static inline bool swq_has_sleeper(struct swait_queue_head *wq)
>
> extern void swake_up_one(struct swait_queue_head *q);
> extern void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q);
> -extern void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q);
> +extern void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q, int wake_flags);
>
> extern void prepare_to_swait_exclusive(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait, int state);
> extern long prepare_to_swait_event(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait, int state);
> diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
> index a0307b516b09..5ec7739400f4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/wait.h
> +++ b/include/linux/wait.h
> @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ __remove_wait_queue(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq
> }
>
> int __wake_up(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, int nr, void *key);
> +void __wake_up_on_current_cpu(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, void *key);
> void __wake_up_locked_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, void *key);
> void __wake_up_locked_key_bookmark(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head,
> unsigned int mode, void *key, wait_queue_entry_t *bookmark);
> @@ -237,6 +238,8 @@ void __wake_up_pollfree(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head);
> #define key_to_poll(m) ((__force __poll_t)(uintptr_t)(void *)(m))
> #define wake_up_poll(x, m) \
> __wake_up(x, TASK_NORMAL, 1, poll_to_key(m))
> +#define wake_up_poll_on_current_cpu(x, m) \
> + __wake_up_on_current_cpu(x, TASK_NORMAL, poll_to_key(m))
> #define wake_up_locked_poll(x, m) \
> __wake_up_locked_key((x), TASK_NORMAL, poll_to_key(m))
> #define wake_up_interruptible_poll(x, m) \
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
> index d57a5c1c1cd9..3561ab533dd4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,23 @@
> * Waiting for completion is a typically sync point, but not an exclusion point.
> */
>
> +static void complete_with_flags(struct completion *x, int wake_flags)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
> +
> + if (x->done != UINT_MAX)
> + x->done++;
> + swake_up_locked(&x->wait, wake_flags);
> + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
> +}
> +
> +void complete_on_current_cpu(struct completion *x)
> +{
> + return complete_with_flags(x, WF_CURRENT_CPU);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * complete: - signals a single thread waiting on this completion
> * @x: holds the state of this particular completion
> @@ -27,14 +44,7 @@
> */
> void complete(struct completion *x)
> {
> - unsigned long flags;
> -
> - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
> -
> - if (x->done != UINT_MAX)
> - x->done++;
> - swake_up_locked(&x->wait);
> - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
> + complete_with_flags(x, 0);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 25e902b40a18..5233e5182755 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6925,7 +6925,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __sched preempt_schedule_irq(void)
> int default_wake_function(wait_queue_entry_t *curr, unsigned mode, int wake_flags,
> void *key)
> {
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) && wake_flags & ~WF_SYNC);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG) && wake_flags & ~(WF_SYNC|WF_CURRENT_CPU));
> return try_to_wake_up(curr->private, mode, wake_flags);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_wake_function);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/swait.c b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> index 76b9b796e695..72505cd3b60a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/swait.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__init_swait_queue_head);
> * If for some reason it would return 0, that means the previously waiting
> * task is already running, so it will observe condition true (or has already).
> */
> -void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> +void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q, int wake_flags)
> {
> struct swait_queue *curr;
>
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> return;
>
> curr = list_first_entry(&q->task_list, typeof(*curr), task_list);
> - wake_up_process(curr->task);
> + try_to_wake_up(curr->task, TASK_NORMAL, wake_flags);
> list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_locked);
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_locked);
> void swake_up_all_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> {
> while (!list_empty(&q->task_list))
> - swake_up_locked(q);
> + swake_up_locked(q, 0);
> }
>
> void swake_up_one(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ void swake_up_one(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> unsigned long flags;
>
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
> - swake_up_locked(q);
> + swake_up_locked(q, 0);
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_one);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
> index 133b74730738..47803a0b8d5d 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
> @@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ int __wake_up(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__wake_up);
>
> +void __wake_up_on_current_cpu(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, void *key)
> +{
> + __wake_up_common_lock(wq_head, mode, 1, WF_CURRENT_CPU, key);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Same as __wake_up but called with the spinlock in wait_queue_head_t held.
> */
> --
> 2.39.1.456.gfc5497dd1b-goog
>