All current spinning loops retry an atomic op the first chance they get,
which leads to performance degradation under load.
One classic solution to the problem consists of delaying the test to an
extent. This implementation has a trivial linear increment and a random
factor for each attempt.
For simplicity, this first thouch implementation only modifies spinning
loops where the lock owner is running. spin mutexes and thread lock were
not modified.
Current parameters are autotuned on boot based on mp_cpus.
Autotune factors are very conservative and are subject to change later.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
Both variables are uint64_t, but they only count spins or sleeps.
All reasonable values which we can get here comfortably hit in 32-bit range.
Suggested by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Inline version of primitives do an atomic op and if it fails they fallback to
actual primitives, which immediately retry the atomic op.
The obvious optimisation is to check if the lock is free and only then proceed
to do an atomic op.
Reviewed by: jhb, vangyzen
This field is only used in a KASSERT that verifies that no locks are held
when returning to user mode. Moreover, the td_locks accounting is only
correct when LOCK_DEBUG > 0, which is implied by INVARIANTS.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3205
in lockstat.ko. This means that lockstat probes now have typed arguments and
will utilize SDT probe hot-patching support when it arrives.
Reviewed by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2993
LO_NOPROFILE is set. Some timecounter handlers acquire a spin mutex, and
we don't want to recurse if lockstat probes are enabled.
PR: 201642
Reviewed by: avg
MFC after: 3 days
0. For spin events report time spent spinning, not a loop count.
While loop count is much easier and cheaper to obtain it is hard
to reason about the reported numbers, espcially for adaptive locks
where both spinning and sleeping can happen.
So, it's better to compare apples and apples.
1. Teach lockstat about FreeBSD rw locks.
This is done in part by changing the corresponding probes
and in part by changing what probes lockstat should expect.
2. Teach lockstat that rw locks are adaptive and can spin on FreeBSD.
3. Report lock acquisition events for successful rw try-lock operations.
4. Teach lockstat about FreeBSD sx locks.
Reporting of events for those locks completely mirrors
rw locks.
5. Report spin and block events before acquisition event.
This is behavior documented for the upstream, so it makes sense to stick
to it. Note that because of FreeBSD adaptive lock implementations
both the spin and block events may be reported for the same acquisition
while the upstream reports only one of them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2727
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 17 days
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ClusterHQ
A _NEW flag passed to _init_flags() to avoid check for double-init.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1208
Reviewed by: jhb, wblock
MFC after: 1 Month
option, unbreak the lock tracing release semantic by embedding
calls to LOCKSTAT_PROFILE_RELEASE_LOCK() direclty in the inlined
version of the releasing functions for mutex, rwlock and sxlock.
Failing to do so skips the lockstat_probe_func invokation for
unlocking.
- As part of the LOCKSTAT support is inlined in mutex operation, for
kernel compiled without lock debugging options, potentially every
consumer must be compiled including opt_kdtrace.h.
Fix this by moving KDTRACE_HOOKS into opt_global.h and remove the
dependency by opt_kdtrace.h for all files, as now only KDTRACE_FRAMES
is linked there and it is only used as a compile-time stub [0].
[0] immediately shows some new bug as DTRACE-derived support for debug
in sfxge is broken and it was never really tested. As it was not
including correctly opt_kdtrace.h before it was never enabled so it
was kept broken for a while. Fix this by using a protection stub,
leaving sfxge driver authors the responsibility for fixing it
appropriately [1].
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: rstone
[0] Reported by: rstone
[1] Discussed with: philip
shared-held locks for all the primitives in lc_lock/lc_unlock routines.
This fixes the problems introduced in r255747, which indeed introduced an
inversion in the logic.
Reported by: many
Tested by: bdrewery, pho, lme, Adam McDougall, O. Hartmann
Approved by: re (glebius)
current lock classes KPI it was really difficult because there was no
way to pass an rmtracker object to the lock/unlock routines. In order
to accomplish the task, modify the aforementioned functions so that
they can return (or pass as argument) an uinptr_t, which is in the rm
case used to hold a pointer to struct rm_priotracker for current
thread. As an added bonus, this fixes rm_sleep() in the rm shared
case, which right now can communicate priotracker structure between
lc_unlock()/lc_lock().
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Approved by: re (delphij)
- Call lock_init() first before setting any lock_object fields in
lock init routines. This way if the machine panics due to a duplicate
init the lock's original state is preserved.
- Somewhat similarly, don't decrement td_locks and td_slocks until after
an unlock operation has completed successfully.
interrupt context can still be idlethread. At that point, without the
panic condition, it can still happen that idlethread then will try to
acquire some locks to carry on some operations.
Skip the idlethread check on block/sleep lock operations when KDB is
active.
Reported by: jh
Tested by: jh
MFC after: 1 week
trap checks (eg. printtrap()).
Generally this check is not needed anymore, as there is not a legitimate
case where curthread != NULL, after pcpu 0 area has been properly
initialized.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Idle threads are not allowed to acquire any lock but spinlocks.
Deny any attempt to do so by panicing at the locking operation
when INVARIANTS is on. Then, remove the check on blocking on a
turnstile.
The check in sleepqueues is left because they are not allowed to use
tsleep() either which could happen still.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
Historical behavior of letting other CPUs merily go on is a default for
time being. The new behavior can be switched on via
kern.stop_scheduler_on_panic tunable and sysctl.
Stopping of the CPUs has (at least) the following benefits:
- more of the system state at panic time is preserved intact
- threads and interrupts do not interfere with dumping of the system
state
Only one thread runs uninterrupted after panic if stop_scheduler_on_panic
is set. That thread might call code that is also used in normal context
and that code might use locks to prevent concurrent execution of certain
parts. Those locks might be held by the stopped threads and would never
be released. To work around this issue, it was decided that instead of
explicit checks for panic context, we would rather put those checks
inside the locking primitives.
This change has substantial portions written and re-written by attilio
and kib at various times. Other changes are heavily based on the ideas
and patches submitted by jhb and mdf. bde has provided many insights
into the details and history of the current code.
The new behavior may cause problems for systems that use a USB keyboard
for interfacing with system console. This is because of some unusual
locking patterns in the ukbd code which have to be used because on one
hand ukbd is below syscons, but on the other hand it has to interface
with other usb code that uses regular mutexes/Giant for its concurrency
protection. Dumping to USB-connected disks may also be affected.
PR: amd64/139614 (at least)
In cooperation with: attilio, jhb, kib, mdf
Discussed with: arch@, bde
Tested by: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>,
gnn,
Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>,
glebius,
Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
(various versions of the patch)
MFC after: 3 months (or never)
This enables locking consumers to pass their own structures around as const and
be able to assert locks embedded into those structures.
Reviewed by: ed, kib, jhb
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
sxlock, via the sx_{s, x}lock_sig() interface, or plain lockmgr), will
leave the waiters flag on forcing the owner to do a wakeup even when if
the waiter queue is empty.
That operation may lead to a deadlock in the case of doing a fake wakeup
on the "preferred" (based on the wakeup algorithm) queue while the other
queue has real waiters on it, because nobody is going to wakeup the 2nd
queue waiters and they will sleep indefinitively.
A similar bug, is present, for lockmgr in the case the waiters are
sleeping with LK_SLEEPFAIL on. In this case, even if the waiters queue
is not empty, the waiters won't progress after being awake but they will
just fail, still not taking care of the 2nd queue waiters (as instead the
lock owned doing the wakeup would expect).
In order to fix this bug in a cheap way (without adding too much locking
and complicating too much the semantic) add a sleepqueue interface which
does report the actual number of waiters on a specified queue of a
waitchannel (sleepq_sleepcnt()) and use it in order to determine if the
exclusive waiters (or shared waiters) are actually present on the lockmgr
(or sx) before to give them precedence in the wakeup algorithm.
This fix alone, however doesn't solve the LK_SLEEPFAIL bug. In order to
cope with it, add the tracking of how many exclusive LK_SLEEPFAIL waiters
a lockmgr has and if all the waiters on the exclusive waiters queue are
LK_SLEEPFAIL just wake both queues.
The sleepq_sleepcnt() introduction and ABI breakage require
__FreeBSD_version bumping.
Reported by: avg, kib, pho
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: pho
in order to avoid, on architectures which doesn't have strong ordered
writes, CPU instructions reordering.
Diagnosed by: fabio
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
In the lockmgr support:
- GIANT_RESTORE() is just called when the sleep finishes, so the current
code can ends up into a giant unlock problem. Fix it by appropriately
call GIANT_RESTORE() when needed. Note that this is not exactly ideal
because for any interation of the adaptive spinning we drop and restore
Giant, but the overhead should be not a factor.
- In the lock held in exclusive mode case, after the adaptive spinning is
brought to completition, we should just retry to acquire the lock
instead to fallthrough. Fix that.
- Fix a style nit
In the sx support:
- Call GIANT_SAVE() before than looping. This saves some overhead because
in the current code GIANT_SAVE() is called several times.
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
a pointer-fetching specific operation check. Consequently, rename the
operation ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD_PTR().
* Fix the implementation of ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD_PTR() by checking
directly alignment on the word boundry, for all the given specific
architectures. That's a bit too strict for some common case, but it
assures safety.
* Add a comment explaining the scope of the macro
* Add a new stub in the lockmgr specific implementation
Tested by: marcel (initial version), marius
Reviewed by: rwatson, jhb (comment specific review)
Approved by: re (kib)
Check that the given variable is at most uintptr_t in size and that
it is aligned.
Note: ASSERT_ATOMIC_LOAD() uses ALIGN() to check for adequate
alignment -- however, the function of ALIGN() is to guarantee
alignment, and therefore may lead to stronger alignment
enforcement than necessary for types that are smaller than
sizeof(uintptr_t).
Add checks to mtx, rw and sx locks init functions to detect possible
breakage. This was used during debugging of the problem fixed with
r196118 where a pointer was on an un-aligned address in the dpcpu area.
In collaboration with: rwatson
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (kib)
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
