stackdepot: make fast paths lock-less again
With the introduction of the pool_rwlock (reader-writer lock), several fast paths end up taking the pool_rwlock as readers. Furthermore, stack_depot_put() unconditionally takes the pool_rwlock as a writer. Despite allowing readers to make forward-progress concurrently, reader-writer locks have inherent cache contention issues, which does not scale well on systems with large CPU counts. Rework the synchronization story of stack depot to again avoid taking any locks in the fast paths. This is done by relying on RCU-protected list traversal, and the NMI-safe subset of RCU to delay reuse of freed stack records. See code comments for more details. Along with the performance issues, this also fixes incorrect nesting of rwlock within a raw_spinlock, given that stack depot should still be usable from anywhere: | [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] | ----------------------------- | swapper/0/1 is trying to lock: | ffffffff89869be8 (pool_rwlock){..--}-{3:3}, at: stack_depot_save_flags | other info that might help us debug this: | context-{5:5} | 2 locks held by swapper/0/1: | #0: ffffffff89632440 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __queue_work | #1: ffff888100092018 (&pool->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: __queue_work <-- raw_spin_lock Stack depot usage stats are similar to the previous version after a KASAN kernel boot: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/stackdepot/stats pools: 838 allocations: 29865 frees: 6604 in_use: 23261 freelist_size: 1879 The number of pools is the same as previously. The freelist size is minimally larger, but this may also be due to variance across system boots. This shows that even though we do not eagerly wait for the next RCU grace period (such as with synchronize_rcu() or call_rcu()) after freeing a stack record - requiring depot_pop_free() to "poll" if an entry may be used - new allocations are very likely to happen in later RCU grace periods. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240118110216.2539519-2-elver@google.com Fixes: 108be8de ("lib/stackdepot: allow users to evict stack traces") Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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