[PATCH v2 6/8] mm/lru: remove rcu_read_lock to fix performance regression

From: Alex Shi
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 09:07:23 EST


Intel 0day report there are performance regression on this patchset.
The detailed info points to rcu_read_lock + PROVE_LOCKING which causes
queued_spin_lock_slowpath waiting too long time to get lock.
Remove rcu_read_lock is safe here since we had a spinlock hold.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 29 ++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 2421b720d272..f869897a68f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -1307,20 +1307,18 @@ static inline struct lruvec *relock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page,
struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
struct lruvec *lruvec;

- rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!locked_lruvec)
+ goto lock;
+
lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);

- if (locked_lruvec == lruvec) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (locked_lruvec == lruvec)
return lruvec;
- }
- rcu_read_unlock();

- if (locked_lruvec)
- spin_unlock_irq(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock);

+lock:
lruvec = lock_page_lruvec_irq(page, pgdat);
-
return lruvec;
}

@@ -1331,21 +1329,18 @@ static inline struct lruvec *relock_page_lruvec_irqsave(struct page *page,
struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
struct lruvec *lruvec;

- rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!locked_lruvec)
+ goto lock;
+
lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);

- if (locked_lruvec == lruvec) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (locked_lruvec == lruvec)
return lruvec;
- }
- rcu_read_unlock();

- if (locked_lruvec)
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock,
- locked_lruvec->flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock, locked_lruvec->flags);

+lock:
lruvec = lock_page_lruvec_irqsave(page, pgdat);
-
return lruvec;
}

--
1.8.3.1