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[209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 3si21476253pgt.305.2019.05.14.10.27.05; Tue, 14 May 2019 10:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=alibaba.com Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726948AbfENRZx (ORCPT + 99 others); Tue, 14 May 2019 13:25:53 -0400 Received: from out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com ([115.124.30.54]:53733 "EHLO out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726574AbfENRZx (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2019 13:25:53 -0400 X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R761e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=e01e04407;MF=yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=9;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0TRk4ZGG_1557854744; Received: from US-143344MP.local(mailfrom:yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0TRk4ZGG_1557854744) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Wed, 15 May 2019 01:25:47 +0800 Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH] mm: mmu_gather: remove __tlb_reset_range() for force flush To: Will Deacon Cc: jstancek@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, namit@vmware.com, minchan@kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1557444414-12090-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> <20190513163804.GB10754@fuggles.cambridge.arm.com> <360170d7-b16f-f130-f930-bfe54be9747a@linux.alibaba.com> <20190514145445.GB2825@fuggles.cambridge.arm.com> From: Yang Shi Message-ID: <21905828-d08d-a9a7-5ff9-2383f4fdce0f@linux.alibaba.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 10:25:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190514145445.GB2825@fuggles.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/14/19 7:54 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 04:01:09PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote: >> >> On 5/13/19 9:38 AM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 07:26:54AM +0800, Yang Shi wrote: >>>> diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c >>>> index 99740e1..469492d 100644 >>>> --- a/mm/mmu_gather.c >>>> +++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c >>>> @@ -245,14 +245,39 @@ void tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, >>>> { >>>> /* >>>> * If there are parallel threads are doing PTE changes on same range >>>> - * under non-exclusive lock(e.g., mmap_sem read-side) but defer TLB >>>> - * flush by batching, a thread has stable TLB entry can fail to flush >>>> - * the TLB by observing pte_none|!pte_dirty, for example so flush TLB >>>> - * forcefully if we detect parallel PTE batching threads. >>>> + * under non-exclusive lock (e.g., mmap_sem read-side) but defer TLB >>>> + * flush by batching, one thread may end up seeing inconsistent PTEs >>>> + * and result in having stale TLB entries. So flush TLB forcefully >>>> + * if we detect parallel PTE batching threads. >>>> + * >>>> + * However, some syscalls, e.g. munmap(), may free page tables, this >>>> + * needs force flush everything in the given range. Otherwise this >>>> + * may result in having stale TLB entries for some architectures, >>>> + * e.g. aarch64, that could specify flush what level TLB. >>>> */ >>>> - if (mm_tlb_flush_nested(tlb->mm)) { >>>> - __tlb_reset_range(tlb); >>>> - __tlb_adjust_range(tlb, start, end - start); >>>> + if (mm_tlb_flush_nested(tlb->mm) && !tlb->fullmm) { >>>> + /* >>>> + * Since we can't tell what we actually should have >>>> + * flushed, flush everything in the given range. >>>> + */ >>>> + tlb->freed_tables = 1; >>>> + tlb->cleared_ptes = 1; >>>> + tlb->cleared_pmds = 1; >>>> + tlb->cleared_puds = 1; >>>> + tlb->cleared_p4ds = 1; >>>> + >>>> + /* >>>> + * Some architectures, e.g. ARM, that have range invalidation >>>> + * and care about VM_EXEC for I-Cache invalidation, need force >>>> + * vma_exec set. >>>> + */ >>>> + tlb->vma_exec = 1; >>>> + >>>> + /* Force vma_huge clear to guarantee safer flush */ >>>> + tlb->vma_huge = 0; >>>> + >>>> + tlb->start = start; >>>> + tlb->end = end; >>>> } >>> Whilst I think this is correct, it would be interesting to see whether >>> or not it's actually faster than just nuking the whole mm, as I mentioned >>> before. >>> >>> At least in terms of getting a short-term fix, I'd prefer the diff below >>> if it's not measurably worse. >> I did a quick test with ebizzy (96 threads with 5 iterations) on my x86 VM, >> it shows slightly slowdown on records/s but much more sys time spent with >> fullmm flush, the below is the data. >> >>                                     nofullmm                 fullmm >> ops (records/s)              225606                  225119 >> sys (s)                            0.69                        1.14 >> >> It looks the slight reduction of records/s is caused by the increase of sys >> time. > That's not what I expected, and I'm unable to explain why moving to fullmm > would /increase/ the system time. I would've thought the time spent doing > the invalidation would decrease, with the downside that the TLB is cold > when returning back to userspace. > > FWIW, I ran 10 iterations of ebizzy on my arm64 box using a vanilla 5.1 > kernel and the numbers are all over the place (see below). I think > deducing anything meaningful from this benchmark will be a challenge. Yes, it looks so. What else benchmark do you suggest? > > Will > > --->8 > > 306090 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1227.55 s > sys 0.54 s > 323547 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1262.95 s > sys 0.82 s > 409148 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1266.54 s > sys 0.94 s > 341507 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1263.49 s > sys 0.66 s > 375910 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1259.87 s > sys 0.82 s > 376152 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1265.76 s > sys 0.96 s > 358862 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1251.13 s > sys 0.72 s > 358164 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1243.48 s > sys 0.85 s > 332148 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1260.93 s > sys 0.70 s > 367021 records/s > real 10.00 s > user 1264.06 s > sys 1.43 s