[Devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] make jump_labels wait while updates are in place

[Glauber Costa]

In mem cgroup, we need to guarantee that two concurrent updates
of the jump_label interface wait for each other. IOW, we can't have
other updates returning while the first one is still patching the
kernel around, otherwise we'll race.

I believe this is something that can fit well in the static branch
API, without noticeable disadvantages:

* in the common case, it will be a quite simple lock/unlock operation
* Every context that calls static_branch_slow* already expects to be
  in sleeping context because it will mutex_lock the unlikely case.
* static_key_slow_inc is not expected to be called in any fast path,
  otherwise it would be expected to have quite a different name. Therefore
  the mutex + atomic combination instead of just an atomic should not kill
  us.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
CC: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
CC: Jason Baron <jbaron at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/jump_label.c |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
index 4304919..5d09cb4 100644
--- a/kernel/jump_label.c
+++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
@@ -57,17 +57,16 @@ static void jump_label_update(struct static_key *key, int enable);
 
 void static_key_slow_inc(struct static_key *key)
 {
+	jump_label_lock();
 	if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&key->enabled))
-		return;
+		goto out;
 
-	jump_label_lock();
-	if (atomic_read(&key->enabled) == 0) {
-		if (!jump_label_get_branch_default(key))
-			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
-		else
-			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_DISABLE);
-	}
+	if (!jump_label_get_branch_default(key))
+		jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
+	else
+		jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_DISABLE);
 	atomic_inc(&key->enabled);
+out:
 	jump_label_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_slow_inc);
@@ -75,10 +74,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_slow_inc);
 static void __static_key_slow_dec(struct static_key *key,
 		unsigned long rate_limit, struct delayed_work *work)
 {
-	if (!atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(&key->enabled, &jump_label_mutex)) {
+	jump_label_lock();
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->enabled)) {
 		WARN(atomic_read(&key->enabled) < 0,
 		     "jump label: negative count!\n");
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (rate_limit) {
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static void __static_key_slow_dec(struct static_key *key,
 		else
 			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
 	}
+out:
 	jump_label_unlock();
 }
 
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