[patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters

From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 11:04:40 EST


Distributed refcounting infrastructure patch originally by Rusty Russel.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/14/47
Changes from the original:
- Rediffed and changed to use new alloc_percpu interface
- Added bigref_set for some applications which initialize refcounters to 0
- Donot call release at bigref_put if NULL
- Use synchronize_sched instead of synchronize_kernel

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russel <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Index: alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/include/linux/bigref.h
===================================================================
--- alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7.orig/include/linux/bigref.h 2005-08-28 09:48:29.174802240 -0700
+++ alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/include/linux/bigref.h 2005-08-29 08:28:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_BIGREF_H
+#define _LINUX_BIGREF_H
+/* Per-cpu reference counters. Useful when speed is important, and
+ counter will only hit zero after some explicit event (such as being
+ discarded from a list).
+
+ (C) 2003 Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+*/
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <asm/atomic.h>
+#include <asm/local.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+struct bigref
+{
+ /* If this is zero, we use per-cpu counters. */
+ atomic_t slow_ref;
+ local_t *local_ref;
+};
+
+/* Initialize reference to 1. */
+void bigref_init(struct bigref *bigref);
+/* Initialize reference to val */
+void bigref_set(struct bigref *bigref, int val);
+/* Disown reference: next bigref_put can hit zero */
+void bigref_disown(struct bigref *bigref);
+/* Grab reference */
+void bigref_get(struct bigref *bigref);
+/* Drop reference */
+void bigref_put(struct bigref *bigref, void (*release)(struct bigref *bigref));
+/* Destroy bigref prematurely (which might not have hit zero) */
+void bigref_destroy(struct bigref *bigref);
+
+/* Get current value of reference, useful for debugging info. */
+unsigned int bigref_val(struct bigref *bigref);
+#else /* ... !SMP */
+struct bigref
+{
+ atomic_t ref;
+};
+
+/* Initialize reference to 1. */
+static inline void bigref_init(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ atomic_set(&bigref->ref, 1);
+}
+
+/* Initialize reference to val */
+static inline void bigref_set(struct bigref *bigref, int val)
+{
+ atomic_set(&bigref->ref, val);
+}
+
+/* Disown reference: next bigref_put can hit zero */
+static inline void bigref_disown(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+}
+
+/* Grab reference */
+static inline void bigref_get(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&bigref->ref);
+}
+
+/* Drop reference */
+static inline void bigref_put(struct bigref *bigref,
+ void (*release)(struct bigref *bigref))
+{
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bigref->ref))
+ release(bigref);
+}
+
+/* Get current value of reference, useful for debugging info. */
+static inline unsigned int bigref_val(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&bigref->ref);
+}
+
+static inline void bigref_destroy(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+}
+#endif /* !SMP */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_BIGREF_H */
Index: alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/kernel/Makefile
===================================================================
--- alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7.orig/kernel/Makefile 2005-08-29 08:28:30.000000000 -0700
+++ alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/kernel/Makefile 2005-08-29 08:28:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

obj-$(CONFIG_FUTEX) += futex.o
obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA) += dma.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpu.o spinlock.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpu.o spinlock.o bigref.o
obj-$(CONFIG_UID16) += uid16.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += module.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms.o
Index: alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/kernel/bigref.c
===================================================================
--- alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7.orig/kernel/bigref.c 2005-08-28 09:48:29.174802240 -0700
+++ alloc_percpu-2.6.13-rc7/kernel/bigref.c 2005-08-29 08:29:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#include <linux/bigref.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/system.h>
+
+static inline int is_slow_mode(const struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&bigref->slow_ref) != 0;
+}
+
+/* Initialize reference to 1. */
+void bigref_init(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ bigref->local_ref = alloc_percpu(local_t, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ /* If we can't allocate, we just stay in slow mode. */
+ if (!bigref->local_ref)
+ atomic_set(&bigref->slow_ref, 1);
+ else {
+ /* Bump any counter to 1. */
+ local_set(__get_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref), 1);
+ atomic_set(&bigref->slow_ref, 0);
+ }
+}
+/* Initialize reference to val */
+void bigref_set(struct bigref *bigref, int val)
+{
+
+ if (!bigref->local_ref)
+ atomic_set(&bigref->slow_ref, val);
+ else {
+ /* Bump any counter to val. */
+ local_set(__get_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref), val);
+ atomic_set(&bigref->slow_ref, 0);
+ }
+}
+
+
+/* Disown reference: next bigref_put can hit zero */
+void bigref_disown(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ int i, bias = 0x7FFFFFFF;
+ if (unlikely(is_slow_mode(bigref))) {
+ /* Must have been alloc fail, not double disown. */
+ BUG_ON(bigref->local_ref);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Insert high number so this doesn't go to zero now. */
+ atomic_set(&bigref->slow_ref, bias);
+
+ /* Make sure everyone sees it and is using slow mode. */
+ synchronize_sched();
+
+ /* Take away bias, and add sum of local counters. */
+ for_each_cpu(i)
+ bias -= local_read(per_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref, i));
+ atomic_sub(bias, &bigref->slow_ref);
+
+ /* This caller should be holding one reference. */
+ BUG_ON(atomic_read(&bigref->slow_ref) == 0);
+}
+
+/* Grab reference */
+void bigref_get(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ if (unlikely(is_slow_mode(bigref)))
+ atomic_inc(&bigref->slow_ref);
+ else
+ local_inc(__get_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref));
+}
+
+/* Drop reference */
+void bigref_put(struct bigref *bigref, void (*release)(struct bigref *bigref))
+{
+ if (unlikely(is_slow_mode(bigref))) {
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bigref->slow_ref)) {
+ free_percpu(bigref->local_ref);
+ if (release)
+ release(bigref);
+ }
+ } else
+ local_dec(__get_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref));
+}
+
+void bigref_destroy(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ if (bigref->local_ref)
+ free_percpu(bigref->local_ref);
+}
+
+/* Get current value of reference, useful for debugging info. */
+unsigned int bigref_val(struct bigref *bigref)
+{
+ unsigned int sum = 0, i;
+
+ if (unlikely(is_slow_mode(bigref)))
+ sum = atomic_read(&bigref->slow_ref);
+ else
+ for_each_cpu(i)
+ sum += local_read(per_cpu_ptr(bigref->local_ref, i));
+ return sum;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_init);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_disown);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_get);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_put);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_destroy);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bigref_val);
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