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[24.6.216.183]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 19-20020a170902e9d300b0016bfdcb34d4sm5457614plk.152.2022.07.07.23.59.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3696.100.31\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/tlb: avoid reading mm_tlb_gen when possible From: Nadav Amit In-Reply-To: <575B908D-A29B-40B0-9A80-76B7E7A9762E@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 23:59:55 -0700 Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8CC20C66-F223-44E8-9F40-90CFE6E8858B@gmail.com> References: <20220606180123.2485171-1-namit@vmware.com> <904C4BCE-78E7-4FEE-BD8D-03DCE75A5B8B@gmail.com> <575B908D-A29B-40B0-9A80-76B7E7A9762E@gmail.com> To: Hugh Dickins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3696.100.31) ARC-Seal: i=1; s=arc-20220608; d=hostedemail.com; t=1657263599; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=C03UFnuQJ7fad9NmZ0hVyhLws/5Hw0DRc99vBRxCnlXjXT4N2i9KXd56XvZzKR893XT1oB Yeoj3+qhlRZ5l1bym3Ihaz3e6alo+K04pNZFbu81qm4XrsiDKO85Y0PH2AZFhY6Y/cUdmO 51C1Ut0GhQRPdKQtcfWJThlHC90Phj0= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; imf09.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=dIWFSpGM; spf=pass (imf09.hostedemail.com: domain of nadav.amit@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.175 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=nadav.amit@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=hostedemail.com; s=arc-20220608; t=1657263599; h=from:from:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:dkim-signature; bh=vkhHDiKcv15bM4xa5h83OBiBFyvWgUOvR5NKKqCXVpM=; b=FZhfH/1EdCIuzhplLn5Dz+yyhoRHa5U1gVny8PdBfc+APiGsOoBFuotOUjNKF9vVcSpxQy 0LN7A2GJUlmDtMEGxJtGq7tUqXKSNS7ks23A1gQVDim7AvUPurhLN53N9PkGaSFgnCpiHq M51BmbZczpHIByJcNMg5MkroT9uiglY= X-Stat-Signature: hc1jnf3kha5waohaim4kabdo5wyyijen X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6C4F0140022 Authentication-Results: imf09.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=dIWFSpGM; spf=pass (imf09.hostedemail.com: domain of nadav.amit@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.175 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=nadav.amit@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam10 X-HE-Tag: 1657263599-41552 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Jul 7, 2022, at 10:56 PM, Nadav Amit wrote: > On Jul 7, 2022, at 9:23 PM, Nadav Amit wrote: >=20 >> On Jul 7, 2022, at 8:27 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: >>=20 >>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Nadav Amit wrote: >>>=20 >>>> From: Nadav Amit >>>>=20 >>>> On extreme TLB shootdown storms, the mm's tlb_gen cacheline is = highly >>>> contended and reading it should (arguably) be avoided as much as >>>> possible. >>>>=20 >>>> Currently, flush_tlb_func() reads the mm's tlb_gen unconditionally, >>>> even when it is not necessary (e.g., the mm was already switched). >>>> This is wasteful. >>>>=20 >>>> Moreover, one of the existing optimizations is to read mm's tlb_gen = to >>>> see if there are additional in-flight TLB invalidations and flush = the >>>> entire TLB in such a case. However, if the request's tlb_gen was = already >>>> flushed, the benefit of checking the mm's tlb_gen is likely to be = offset >>>> by the overhead of the check itself. >>>>=20 >>>> Running will-it-scale with tlb_flush1_threads show a considerable >>>> benefit on 56-core Skylake (up to +24%): >>>>=20 >>>> threads Baseline (v5.17+) +Patch >>>> 1 159960 160202 >>>> 5 310808 308378 (-0.7%) >>>> 10 479110 490728 >>>> 15 526771 562528 >>>> 20 534495 587316 >>>> 25 547462 628296 >>>> 30 579616 666313 >>>> 35 594134 701814 >>>> 40 612288 732967 >>>> 45 617517 749727 >>>> 50 637476 735497 >>>> 55 614363 778913 (+24%) >>>>=20 >>>> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) >>>> Cc: Dave Hansen >>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar >>>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski >>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner >>>> Cc: x86@kernel.org >>>> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit >>>>=20 >>>> -- >>>>=20 >>>> Note: The benchmarked kernels include Dave's revert of commit >>>> 6035152d8eeb ("x86/mm/tlb: Open-code on_each_cpu_cond_mask() for >>>> tlb_is_not_lazy() >>>> --- >>>> arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- >>>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>>=20 >>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c >>>> index d400b6d9d246..d9314cc8b81f 100644 >>>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c >>>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c >>>> @@ -734,10 +734,10 @@ static void flush_tlb_func(void *info) >>>> const struct flush_tlb_info *f =3D info; >>>> struct mm_struct *loaded_mm =3D = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm); >>>> u32 loaded_mm_asid =3D = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm_asid); >>>> - u64 mm_tlb_gen =3D atomic64_read(&loaded_mm->context.tlb_gen); >>>> u64 local_tlb_gen =3D = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.ctxs[loaded_mm_asid].tlb_gen); >>>> bool local =3D smp_processor_id() =3D=3D f->initiating_cpu; >>>> unsigned long nr_invalidate =3D 0; >>>> + u64 mm_tlb_gen; >>>>=20 >>>> /* This code cannot presently handle being reentered. */ >>>> VM_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()); >>>> @@ -771,6 +771,22 @@ static void flush_tlb_func(void *info) >>>> return; >>>> } >>>>=20 >>>> + if (f->new_tlb_gen <=3D local_tlb_gen) { >>>> + /* >>>> + * The TLB is already up to date in respect to = f->new_tlb_gen. >>>> + * While the core might be still behind mm_tlb_gen, = checking >>>> + * mm_tlb_gen unnecessarily would have negative caching = effects >>>> + * so avoid it. >>>> + */ >>>> + return; >>>> + } >>>> + >>>> + /* >>>> + * Defer mm_tlb_gen reading as long as possible to avoid cache >>>> + * contention. >>>> + */ >>>> + mm_tlb_gen =3D atomic64_read(&loaded_mm->context.tlb_gen); >>>> + >>>> if (unlikely(local_tlb_gen =3D=3D mm_tlb_gen)) { >>>> /* >>>> * There's nothing to do: we're already up to date. = This can >>>> --=20 >>>> 2.25.1 >>>=20 >>> I'm sorry, but bisection and reversion show that this commit, >>> aa44284960d550eb4d8614afdffebc68a432a9b4 in current linux-next, >>> is responsible for the "internal compiler error: Segmentation = fault"s >>> I get when running kernel builds on tmpfs in 1G memory, lots of = swapping. >>>=20 >>> That tmpfs is using huge pages as much as it can, so splitting and >>> collapsing, compaction and page migration entailed, in case that's >>> relevant (maybe this commit is perfect, but there's a TLB flushing >>> bug over there in mm which this commit just exposes). >>>=20 >>> Whether those segfaults happen without the huge page element, >>> I have not done enough testing to tell - there are other bugs with >>> swapping in current linux-next, indeed, I wouldn't even have found >>> this one, if I hadn't already been on a bisection for another bug, >>> and got thrown off course by these segfaults. >>>=20 >>> I hope that you can work out what might be wrong with this, >>> but meantime I think it needs to be reverted. >>=20 >> I find it always surprising how trivial one liners fail. >>=20 >> As you probably know, debugging these kind of things is hard. I see = two >> possible cases: >>=20 >> 1. The failure is directly related to this optimization. The = immediate >> suspect in my mind is something to do with PCID/ASID. >>=20 >> 2. The failure is due to another bug that was papered by =E2=80=9Cenoug= h=E2=80=9D TLB >> flushes. >>=20 >> I will look into the code. But if it is possible, it would be helpful = to >> know whether you get the failure with the =E2=80=9Cnopcid=E2=80=9D = kernel parameter. If it >> passes, it wouldn=E2=80=99t say much, but if it fails, I think (2) is = more likely. >>=20 >> Not arguing about a revert, but, in some way, if the test fails, it = can >> indicate that the optimization =E2=80=9Cworks=E2=80=9D=E2=80=A6 >>=20 >> I=E2=80=99ll put some time to look deeper into the code, but it would = be very >> helpful if you can let me know what happens with nopcid. >=20 > Actually, only using =E2=80=9Cnopcid=E2=80=9D would most likely make = it go away if we have > PTI enabled. So to get a good indication, a check whether it = reproduces with > =E2=80=9Cnopti=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cnopcid=E2=80=9D is needed. >=20 > I don=E2=80=99t have a better answer yet. Still trying to see what = might have gone > wrong. Ok. My bad. Sorry. arch_tlbbatch_flush() does not set any generation in flush_tlb_info. Bad. Should be fixed by something like - I=E2=80=99ll send a patch tomorrow: diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c index d9314cc8b81f..9f19894c322f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_func(void *info) return; } =20 - if (f->new_tlb_gen <=3D local_tlb_gen) { + if (unlikely(f->mm && f->new_tlb_gen <=3D local_tlb_gen)) { /* * The TLB is already up to date in respect to = f->new_tlb_gen. * While the core might be still behind mm_tlb_gen, = checking