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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2014-08-16 17:40:10 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-08 06:17:01 (GMT)
commite78c3496790ee8a36522a838b59b388e8a709e65 (patch)
tree0473b9ea676754d50b19eb1a862ac16fdffacbeb /kernel/time
parent90ed9cbe765ad358b3151a12b8bf889a3cbcd573 (diff)
downloadlinux-e78c3496790ee8a36522a838b59b388e8a709e65.tar.xz
time, signal: Protect resource use statistics with seqlock
Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a lock. The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all). Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being completely serialized on large systems. This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling functions. In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime(). This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org> Cc: Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: srao@redhat.com Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com Cc: atheurer@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140816134010.26a9b572@annuminas.surriel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 3b89464..492b986 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -272,22 +272,8 @@ static int posix_cpu_clock_get_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
if (same_thread_group(tsk, current))
err = cpu_clock_sample(which_clock, tsk, &rtn);
} else {
- unsigned long flags;
- struct sighand_struct *sighand;
-
- /*
- * while_each_thread() is not yet entirely RCU safe,
- * keep locking the group while sampling process
- * clock for now.
- */
- sighand = lock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags);
- if (!sighand)
- return err;
-
if (tsk == current || thread_group_leader(tsk))
err = cpu_clock_sample_group(which_clock, tsk, &rtn);
-
- unlock_task_sighand(tsk, &flags);
}
if (!err)