[Devel] [PATCH rh7 1/8] ms/mm, fs: introduce helpers around the i_mmap_mutex

[Andrey Ryabinin]

From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave at stgolabs.net>

This series is a continuation of the conversion of the i_mmap_mutex to
rwsem, following what we have for the anon memory counterpart.  With
Hugh's feedback from the first iteration.

Ultimately, the most obvious paths that require exclusive ownership of the
lock is when we modify the VMA interval tree, via
vma_interval_tree_insert() and vma_interval_tree_remove() families.  Cases
such as unmapping, where the ptes content is changed but the tree remains
untouched should make it safe to share the i_mmap_rwsem.

As such, the code of course is straightforward, however the devil is very
much in the details.  While its been tested on a number of workloads
without anything exploding, I would not be surprised if there are some
less documented/known assumptions about the lock that could suffer from
these changes.  Or maybe I'm just missing something, but either way I
believe its at the point where it could use more eyes and hopefully some
time in linux-next.

Because the lock type conversion is the heart of this patchset,
its worth noting a few comparisons between mutex vs rwsem (xadd):

  (i) Same size, no extra footprint.

  (ii) Both have CONFIG_XXX_SPIN_ON_OWNER capabilities for
       exclusive lock ownership.

  (iii) Both can be slightly unfair wrt exclusive ownership, with
        writer lock stealing properties, not necessarily respecting
        FIFO order for granting the lock when contended.

  (iv) Mutexes can be slightly faster than rwsems when
       the lock is non-contended.

  (v) Both suck at performance for debug (slowpaths), which
      shouldn't matter anyway.

Sharing the lock is obviously beneficial, and sem writer ownership is
close enough to mutexes.  The biggest winner of these changes is
migration.

As for concrete numbers, the following performance results are for a
4-socket 60-core IvyBridge-EX with 130Gb of RAM.

Both alltests and disk (xfs+ramdisk) workloads of aim7 suite do quite well
with this set, with a steady ~60% throughput (jpm) increase for alltests
and up to ~30% for disk for high amounts of concurrency.  Lower counts of
workload users (< 100) does not show much difference at all, so at least
no regressions.

                    3.18-rc1            3.18-rc1-i_mmap_rwsem
alltests-100     17918.72 (  0.00%)    28417.97 ( 58.59%)
alltests-200     16529.39 (  0.00%)    26807.92 ( 62.18%)
alltests-300     16591.17 (  0.00%)    26878.08 ( 62.00%)
alltests-400     16490.37 (  0.00%)    26664.63 ( 61.70%)
alltests-500     16593.17 (  0.00%)    26433.72 ( 59.30%)
alltests-600     16508.56 (  0.00%)    26409.20 ( 59.97%)
alltests-700     16508.19 (  0.00%)    26298.58 ( 59.31%)
alltests-800     16437.58 (  0.00%)    26433.02 ( 60.81%)
alltests-900     16418.35 (  0.00%)    26241.61 ( 59.83%)
alltests-1000    16369.00 (  0.00%)    26195.76 ( 60.03%)
alltests-1100    16330.11 (  0.00%)    26133.46 ( 60.03%)
alltests-1200    16341.30 (  0.00%)    26084.03 ( 59.62%)
alltests-1300    16304.75 (  0.00%)    26024.74 ( 59.61%)
alltests-1400    16231.08 (  0.00%)    25952.35 ( 59.89%)
alltests-1500    16168.06 (  0.00%)    25850.58 ( 59.89%)
alltests-1600    16142.56 (  0.00%)    25767.42 ( 59.62%)
alltests-1700    16118.91 (  0.00%)    25689.58 ( 59.38%)
alltests-1800    16068.06 (  0.00%)    25599.71 ( 59.32%)
alltests-1900    16046.94 (  0.00%)    25525.92 ( 59.07%)
alltests-2000    16007.26 (  0.00%)    25513.07 ( 59.38%)

disk-100          7582.14 (  0.00%)     7257.48 ( -4.28%)
disk-200          6962.44 (  0.00%)     7109.15 (  2.11%)
disk-300          6435.93 (  0.00%)     6904.75 (  7.28%)
disk-400          6370.84 (  0.00%)     6861.26 (  7.70%)
disk-500          6353.42 (  0.00%)     6846.71 (  7.76%)
disk-600          6368.82 (  0.00%)     6806.75 (  6.88%)
disk-700          6331.37 (  0.00%)     6796.01 (  7.34%)
disk-800          6324.22 (  0.00%)     6788.00 (  7.33%)
disk-900          6253.52 (  0.00%)     6750.43 (  7.95%)
disk-1000         6242.53 (  0.00%)     6855.11 (  9.81%)
disk-1100         6234.75 (  0.00%)     6858.47 ( 10.00%)
disk-1200         6312.76 (  0.00%)     6845.13 (  8.43%)
disk-1300         6309.95 (  0.00%)     6834.51 (  8.31%)
disk-1400         6171.76 (  0.00%)     6787.09 (  9.97%)
disk-1500         6139.81 (  0.00%)     6761.09 ( 10.12%)
disk-1600         4807.12 (  0.00%)     6725.33 ( 39.90%)
disk-1700         4669.50 (  0.00%)     5985.38 ( 28.18%)
disk-1800         4663.51 (  0.00%)     5972.99 ( 28.08%)
disk-1900         4674.31 (  0.00%)     5949.94 ( 27.29%)
disk-2000         4668.36 (  0.00%)     5834.93 ( 24.99%)

In addition, a 67.5% increase in successfully migrated NUMA pages, thus
improving node locality.

The patch layout is simple but designed for bisection (in case reversion
is needed if the changes break upstream) and easier review:

o Patches 1-4 convert the i_mmap lock from mutex to rwsem.
o Patches 5-10 share the lock in specific paths, each patch
  details the rationale behind why it should be safe.

This patchset has been tested with: postgres 9.4 (with brand new hugetlb
support), hugetlbfs test suite (all tests pass, in fact more tests pass
with these changes than with an upstream kernel), ltp, aim7 benchmarks,
memcached and iozone with the -B option for mmap'ing.  *Untested* paths
are nommu, memory-failure, uprobes and xip.

This patch (of 8):

Various parts of the kernel acquire and release this mutex, so add
i_mmap_lock_write() and immap_unlock_write() helper functions that will
encapsulate this logic.  The next patch will make use of these.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill at shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-122663
(cherry picked from commit 8b28f621bea6f84d44adf7e804b73aff1e09105b)
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 55a92ce36e94..e32cb9b71042 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -698,6 +698,16 @@ struct block_device {
 
 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag);
 
+static inline void i_mmap_lock_write(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
+}
+
+static inline void i_mmap_unlock_write(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+	mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
+}
+
 /*
  * Might pages of this file be mapped into userspace?
  */
-- 
2.26.2