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From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To:     rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc:     mingo@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        dave@stgolabs.net, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] fgraph: Convert ret_stack tasklist scanning to rcu
Date:   Sun,  6 Sep 2020 18:33:26 -0700
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It seems that alloc_retstack_tasklist() can also take a lockless
approach for scanning the tasklist, instead of using the big global
tasklist_lock. For this we also kill another deprecated and rcu-unsafe
tsk->thread_group user replacing it with for_each_process_thread(),
maintaining semantics.

Here tasklist_lock does not protect anything other than the list
against concurrent fork/exit. And considering that the whole thing
is capped by FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE (32), it should not be a
problem to have a pontentially stale, yet stable, list. The task cannot
go away either, so we don't risk racing with ftrace_graph_exit_task()
which clears the retstack.

The tsk->ret_stack management is not protected by tasklist_lock, being
serialized with the corresponding publish/subscribe barriers against
concurrent ftrace_push_return_trace(). In addition this plays nicer
with cachelines by avoiding two atomic ops in the uncontended case.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
---
 kernel/trace/fgraph.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
index 1af321dec0f1..5658f13037b3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list)
 		}
 	}
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	do_each_thread(g, t) {
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_process_thread(g, t) {
 		if (start == end) {
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			goto unlock;
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list)
 			smp_wmb();
 			t->ret_stack = ret_stack_list[start++];
 		}
-	} while_each_thread(g, t);
+	}
 
 unlock:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 free:
 	for (i = start; i < end; i++)
 		kfree(ret_stack_list[i]);
--
2.26.2