From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt1-f198.google.com (mail-qt1-f198.google.com [209.85.160.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF0C6B7347 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 03:08:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qt1-f198.google.com with SMTP id q33so19656325qte.23 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j65si7943438qte.309.2018.12.05.00.08.50 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:08:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] core-api/memory-hotplug.rst: divide Locking Internal section by different locks References: <20181205023426.24029-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com> <20181205023426.24029-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com> From: David Hildenbrand Message-ID: <570e4080-8c35-3de4-9ee6-8a508a2a4649@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 09:08:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181205023426.24029-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Wei Yang , mhocko@suse.com, osalvador@suse.de Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On 05.12.18 03:34, Wei Yang wrote: > Currently locking for memory hotplug is a little complicated. > > Generally speaking, we leverage the two global lock: > > * device_hotplug_lock > * mem_hotplug_lock > > to serialise the process. > > While for the long term, we are willing to have more fine-grained lock > to provide higher scalability. > > This patch divides Locking Internal section based on these two global > locks to help readers to understand it. Also it adds some new finding to > enrich it. > > [David: words arrangement] > > Signed-off-by: Wei Yang > --- > Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst > index de7467e48067..95662b283328 100644 > --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst > +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst > @@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ NOTIFY_STOP stops further processing of the notification queue. > Locking Internals > ================= > > +There are three locks involved in memory-hotplug, two global lock and one local > +lock: > + > +- device_hotplug_lock > +- mem_hotplug_lock > +- device_lock > + Do we really only ever use these three and not anything else when adding/removing/onlining/offlining memory? (I am thinking e.g. about pgdat_resize_lock) If so, you should phrase that maybe more generally Or add more details :) "In addition to fine grained locks like pgdat_resize_lock, there are three locks involved ..." > +Currently, they are twisted together for all kinds of reasons. The following > +part is divided into device_hotplug_lock and mem_hotplug_lock parts > +respectively to describe those tricky situations. > + > +device_hotplug_lock > +--------------------- > + > When adding/removing memory that uses memory block devices (i.e. ordinary RAM), > the device_hotplug_lock should be held to: > > @@ -111,13 +125,20 @@ As the device is visible to user space before taking the device_lock(), this > can result in a lock inversion. > > onlining/offlining of memory should be done via device_online()/ > -device_offline() - to make sure it is properly synchronized to actions > -via sysfs. Holding device_hotplug_lock is advised (to e.g. protect online_type) > +device_offline() - to make sure it is properly synchronized to actions via > +sysfs. Even mem_hotplug_lock is used to protect the process, because of the > +lock inversion described above, holding device_hotplug_lock is still advised > +(to e.g. protect online_type) > + > +mem_hotplug_lock > +--------------------- > > When adding/removing/onlining/offlining memory or adding/removing > heterogeneous/device memory, we should always hold the mem_hotplug_lock in > write mode to serialise memory hotplug (e.g. access to global/zone > -variables). > +variables). Currently, we take advantage of this to serialise sparsemem's > +mem_section handling in sparse_add_one_section() and > +sparse_remove_one_section(). > > In addition, mem_hotplug_lock (in contrast to device_hotplug_lock) in read > mode allows for a quite efficient get_online_mems/put_online_mems > -- Thanks, David / dhildenb