Introduce for this operation the reverse NO_ADAPTIVE_SX option.
The flag SX_ADAPTIVESPIN to be passed to sx_init_flags(9) gets suppressed
and the new flag, offering the reversed logic, SX_NOADAPTIVE is added.
Additively implements adaptive spininning for sx held in shared mode.
The spinning limit can be handled through sysctls in order to be tuned
while the code doesn't reach the release, after which time they should
be dropped probabilly.
This change has made been necessary by recent benchmarks where it does
improve concurrency of workloads in presence of high contention
(ie. ZFS).
KPI breakage is documented by __FreeBSD_version bumping, manpage and
UPDATING updates.
Requested by: jeff, kmacy
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
adds probes for mutexes, reader/writer and shared/exclusive locks to
gather contention statistics and other locking information for
dtrace scripts, the lockstat(1M) command and other potential
consumers.
Reviewed by: attilio jhb jb
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
of spurious witness warnings since lockmgr grew witness support. Before
this, every time you passed an interlock to a lockmgr lock WITNESS treated
it as a LOR.
Reviewed by: attilio
routine wakes up proc0 so that proc0 can swap the thread back in.
Historically, this has been done by waking up proc0 directly from
setrunnable() itself via a wakeup(). When waking up a sleeping thread
that was swapped out (the usual case when waking proc0 since only sleeping
threads are eligible to be swapped out), this resulted in a bit of
recursion (e.g. wakeup() -> setrunnable() -> wakeup()).
With sleep queues having separate locks in 6.x and later, this caused a
spin lock LOR (sleepq lock -> sched_lock/thread lock -> sleepq lock).
An attempt was made to fix this in 7.0 by making the proc0 wakeup use
the ithread mechanism for doing the wakeup. However, this required
grabbing proc0's thread lock to perform the wakeup. If proc0 was asleep
elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. waiting for disk I/O), then this degenerated
into the same LOR since the thread lock would be some other sleepq lock.
Fix this by deferring the wakeup of the swapper until after the sleepq
lock held by the upper layer has been locked. The setrunnable() routine
now returns a boolean value to indicate whether or not proc0 needs to be
woken up. The end result is that consumers of the sleepq API such as
*sleep/wakeup, condition variables, sx locks, and lockmgr, have to wakeup
proc0 if they get a non-zero return value from sleepq_abort(),
sleepq_broadcast(), or sleepq_signal().
Discussed with: jeff
Glanced at by: sam
Tested by: Jurgen Weber jurgen - ish com au
MFC after: 2 weeks
lock_object, using an unified field called lo_data.
- Replace lo_type usage with the w_name usage and at init time pass the
lock "type" directly to witness_init() from the parent lock init
function. Handle delayed initialization before than
witness_initialize() is called through the witness_pendhelp structure.
- Axe out LO_ENROLLPEND as it is not really needed. The case where the
mutex init delayed wants to be destroyed can't happen because
witness_destroy() checks for witness_cold and panic in case.
- In enroll(), if we cannot allocate a new object from the freelist,
notify that to userspace through a printf().
- Modify the depart function in order to return nothing as in the current
CVS version it always returns true and adjust callers accordingly.
- Fix the witness_addgraph() argument name prototype.
- Remove unuseful code from itismychild().
This commit leads to a shrinked struct lock_object and so smaller locks,
in particular on amd64 where 2 uintptr_t (16 bytes per-primitive) are
gained.
Reviewed by: jhb
sched_sleep(). This removes extra thread_lock() acquisition and
allows the scheduler to decide what to do with the static boost.
- Change the priority arguments to cv_* to match sleepq/msleep/etc.
where 0 means no priority change. Catch -1 in cv_broadcastpri() and
convert it to 0 for now.
- Set a flag when sleeping in a way that is compatible with swapping
since direct priority comparisons are meaningless now.
- Add a sysctl to ule, kern.sched.static_boost, that defaults to on which
controls the boost behavior. Turning it off gives better performance
in some workloads but needs more investigation.
- While we're modifying sleepq, change signal and broadcast to both
return with the lock held as the lock was held on enter.
Reviewed by: jhb, peter
the ABI when enabled. There is no longer an embedded lock_profile_object
in each lock. Instead a list of lock_profile_objects is kept per-thread
for each lock it may own. The cnt_hold statistic is now always 0 to
facilitate this.
- Support shared locking by tracking individual lock instances and
statistics in the per-thread per-instance lock_profile_object.
- Make the lock profiling hash table a per-cpu singly linked list with a
per-cpu static lock_prof allocator. This removes the need for an array
of spinlocks and reduces cache contention between cores.
- Use a seperate hash for spinlocks and other locks so that only a
critical_enter() is required and not a spinlock_enter() to modify the
per-cpu tables.
- Count time spent spinning in the lock statistics.
- Remove the LOCK_PROFILE_SHARED option as it is always supported now.
- Specifically drop and release the scheduler locks in both schedulers
since we track owners now.
In collaboration with: Kip Macy
Sponsored by: Nokia
an unified way for all the lock primitives to express lock assertions.
Currenty, lockmgrs and rmlocks don't have assertions, so just panic in
that case.
This will be a base for more callout improvements.
Ok'ed by: jhb, jeff
opposed to what process. Since threads by default have teh name of the
process unless over-written with more useful information, just print the
thread name instead.
Before that fix, it was possible for the function to fail if number
of sharers changes between 'x = sx->sx_lock' step and atomic_cmpset_acq_ptr()
call.
This fixes ZFS problem when ZFS returns strange EIO errors under load.
In ZFS there is a code that depends on the fact that sx_try_slock() can
only fail if there is an exclusive owner.
Discussed with: attilio
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- Adjust lock_profiling stubs semantic in the hard functions in order to be
more accurate and trustable
- Disable shared paths for lock_profiling. Actually, lock_profiling has a
subtle race which makes results caming from shared paths not completely
trustable. A macro stub (LOCK_PROFILING_SHARED) can be actually used for
re-enabling this paths, but is currently intended for developing use only.
- Use homogeneous names for automatic variables in hard functions regarding
lock_profiling
- Style fixes
- Add a CTASSERT for some flags building
Discussed with: kmacy, kris
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
Approved by: re
These functions are intended to do the same actions of sx_xlock() and
sx_slock() but with the difference to perform an interruptible sleep, so
that sleep can be interrupted by external events.
In order to support these new featueres, some code renstruction is needed,
but external API won't be affected at all.
Note: use "void" cast for "int" returning functions in order to avoid tools
like Coverity prevents to whine.
Requested by: rwatson
Tested by: rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
"0" cannot be a correct value since when the function is entered at least
one shared holder must be present and since we want the last one "1" is
the correct value.
Note that lock_profiling for sx locks is far from being perfect.
Expect further fixes for that.
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
obtaining and releasing shared and exclusive locks. The algorithms for
manipulating the lock cookie are very similar to that rwlocks. This patch
also adds support for exclusive locks using the same algorithm as mutexes.
A new sx_init_flags() function has been added so that optional flags can be
specified to alter a given locks behavior. The flags include SX_DUPOK,
SX_NOWITNESS, SX_NOPROFILE, and SX_QUITE which are all identical in nature
to the similar flags for mutexes.
Adaptive spinning on select locks may be enabled by enabling the
ADAPTIVE_SX kernel option. Only locks initialized with the SX_ADAPTIVESPIN
flag via sx_init_flags() will adaptively spin.
The common cases for sx_slock(), sx_sunlock(), sx_xlock(), and sx_xunlock()
are now performed inline in non-debug kernels. As a result, <sys/sx.h> now
requires <sys/lock.h> to be included prior to <sys/sx.h>.
The new kernel option SX_NOINLINE can be used to disable the aforementioned
inlining in non-debug kernels.
The size of struct sx has changed, so the kernel ABI is probably greatly
disturbed.
MFC after: 1 month
Submitted by: attilio
Tested by: kris, pjd
These functions are intended to be used to drop a lock and then reacquire
it when doing an sleep such as msleep(9). Both functions accept a
'struct lock_object *' as their first parameter. The 'lc_unlock' function
returns an integer that is then passed as the second paramter to the
subsequent 'lc_lock' function. This can be used to communicate state.
For example, sx locks and rwlocks use this to indicate if the lock was
share/read locked vs exclusive/write locked.
Currently, spin mutexes and lockmgr locks do not provide working lc_lock
and lc_unlock functions.
and optimize away unused stack values. The 48 bytes that the lock_profile_object
adds to the stack evidently has a measurable performance impact on certain workloads.
- Fix missing initialization in kern_rwlock.c causing bogus times to be collected
- Move updates to the lock hash to after the lock is released for spin mutexes,
sleep mutexes, and sx locks
- Add new kernel build option LOCK_PROFILE_FAST - only update lock profiling
statistics when an acquisition is contended. This reduces the overhead of
LOCK_PROFILING to increasing system time by 20%-25% which on
"make -j8 kernel-toolchain" on a dual woodcrest is unmeasurable in terms
of wall-clock time. Contrast this to enabling lock profiling without
LOCK_PROFILE_FAST and I see a 5x-6x slowdown in wall-clock time.
- only collect timestamps when a lock is contested - this reduces the overhead
of collecting profiles from 20x to 5x
- remove unused function from subr_lock.c
- generalize cnt_hold and cnt_lock statistics to be kept for all locks
- NOTE: rwlock profiling generates invalid statistics (and most likely always has)
someone familiar with that should review
wait (time waited to acquire) and hold times for *all* kernel locks. If
the architecture has a system synchronized TSC, the profiling code will
use that - thereby minimizing profiling overhead. Large chunks of profiling
code have been moved out of line, the overhead measured on the T1 for when
it is compiled in but not enabled is < 1%.
Approved by: scottl (standing in for mentor rwatson)
Reviewed by: des and jhb
that it operates on lockmgr and sx locks. This can be useful for tracking
down vnode deadlocks in VFS for example. Note that this command is a bit
more fragile than 'show lockchain' as we have to poke around at the
wait channel of a thread to see if it points to either a struct lock or
a condition variable inside of a struct sx. If td_wchan points to
something unmapped, then this command will terminate early due to a fault,
but no harm will be done.
a count of all non-spin locks, not just lockmgr locks. This can give us a
much cheaper way to see if we have any locks held (such as when returning
to userland via userret()) without requiring WITNESS.
MFC after: 1 week
lock_obj objects:
- Add new lock_init() and lock_destroy() functions to setup and teardown
lock_object objects including KTR logging and registering with WITNESS.
- Move all the handling of LO_INITIALIZED out of witness and the various
lock init functions into lock_init() and lock_destroy().
- Remove the constants for static indices into the lock_classes[] array
and change the code outside of subr_lock.c to use LOCK_CLASS to compare
against a known lock class.
- Move the 'show lock' ddb function and lock_classes[] array out of
kern_mutex.c over to subr_lock.c.
struct sx). Instead of storing a direct pointer to a our lock_class
struct in lock_object, reserve 4 bits in the lo_flags field to serve as an
index into a global lock_classes array that contains pointers to the lock
classes. Only debugging code such as WITNESS or INVARIANTS checks and KTR
logging need to access the lock_class member, so this shouldn't add any
overhead to production kernels. It might add some slight overhead to
kernels using those debug options however.
As with the previous set of changes to lock_object, this is going to
completely obliterate the kernel ABI, so be sure to recompile all your
modules.
class, then it displays various information about the lock and calls a
new function pointer in lock_class (lc_ddb_show) to dump class-specific
information about the lock as well (such as the owner of a mutex or
xlock'ed sx lock). This is easier than staring at hex dumps of locks to
figure out who owns the lock, etc. Note that extending lock_class doesn't
affect the ABI for any kernel modules as the only code that deals with
lock_class structures directly is kern_mutex.c, kern_sx.c, and witness.
MFC after: 1 week
- witness_lock() is split into two pieces: witness_checkorder() and
witness_lock(). Witness_checkorder() determines if acquiring a specified
lock at the time it is called would result in a lock order. It
optionally adds a new lock order relationship as well. witness_lock()
updates witness's data structures to assume that a lock has been acquired
by stick a new lock instance in the appropriate lock instance list.
- The mutex and sx lock functions now call checkorder() prior to trying to
acquire a lock and continue to call witness_lock() after the acquire is
completed. This will let witness catch a deadlock before it happens
rather than trying to do so after the threads have deadlocked (i.e. never
actually report it).
- A new function witness_defineorder() has been added that adds a lock
order between two locks at runtime without having to acquire the locks.
If the lock order cannot be added it will return an error. This function
is available to programmers via the WITNESS_DEFINEORDER() macro which
accepts either two mutexes or two sx locks as its arguments.
- A few simple wrapper macros were added to allow developers to call
witness_checkorder() anywhere as a way of enforcing locking assertions
in code that might acquire a certain lock in some situations. The
macros are: witness_check_{mutex,shared_sx,exclusive_sx} and take an
appropriate lock as the sole argument.
- The code to remove a lock instance from a lock list in witness_unlock()
was unnested by using a goto to vastly improve the readability of this
function.
multiple mutex pools with different options and sizes. Mutex pools can
be created with either the default sleep mutexes or with spin mutexes.
A dynamically created mutex pool can now be destroyed if it is no longer
needed.
Create two pools by default, one that matches the existing pool that
uses the MTX_NOWITNESS option that should be used for building higher
level locks, and a new pool with witness checking enabled.
Modify the users of the existing mutex pool to use the appropriate pool
in the new implementation.
Reviewed by: jhb
