The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects applications like audio. In this patch, I replace the spinlock with an atomic refcount so that preemption is kept turned on during purge. This Ok to do since [3] builds the lazy free list in advance and atomically retrieves the list so any instance of purge will have its own list it is purging. Since the individual vmap area frees are themselves protected by a lock, this is Ok. The only things left is the fact that previously it had trylock behavior, so use the refcount to keep track of in-progress purges and abort like previously if there is an ongoing purge. Lastly, lets reduce vmap_lazy_nr as the vmap area are freed, and not in advance, so that the vmap_lazy_nr is not reduced too soon as suggested in [2]. Tests: cyclictest -p 99 -n Concurrently in a kernel module, vmalloc and vfree 8K buffer in a loop. Preemption configuration: CONFIG_PREEMPT__LL=y (low-latency desktop) Without patch, cyclictest output: policy: fifo: loadavg: 0.05 0.01 0.00 1/85 1272 Avg: 128 Max: 1177 policy: fifo: loadavg: 0.11 0.03 0.01 2/87 1447 Avg: 122 Max: 1897 policy: fifo: loadavg: 0.10 0.03 0.01 1/89 1656 Avg: 93 Max: 2886 With patch, cyclictest output: policy: fifo: loadavg: 1.15 0.68 0.30 1/162 8399 Avg: 92 Max: 284 policy: fifo: loadavg: 1.21 0.71 0.32 2/164 9840 Avg: 94 Max: 296 policy: fifo: loadavg: 1.18 0.72 0.32 2/166 11253 Avg: 107 Max: 321 [1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/15/287 Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 613d1d9..ab25966 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -626,11 +626,11 @@ void set_iounmap_nonlazy(void) static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, int sync, int force_flush) { - static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(purge_lock); + static atomic_t purging; struct llist_node *valist; struct vmap_area *va; struct vmap_area *n_va; - int nr = 0; + int dofree = 0; /* * If sync is 0 but force_flush is 1, we'll go sync anyway but callers @@ -638,10 +638,10 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, * the case that isn't actually used at the moment anyway. */ if (!sync && !force_flush) { - if (!spin_trylock(&purge_lock)) + if (atomic_cmpxchg(&purging, 0, 1)) return; } else - spin_lock(&purge_lock); + atomic_inc(&purging); if (sync) purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(); @@ -652,22 +652,23 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, *start = va->va_start; if (va->va_end > *end) *end = va->va_end; - nr += (va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; + dofree = 1; } - if (nr) - atomic_sub(nr, &vmap_lazy_nr); - - if (nr || force_flush) + if (dofree || force_flush) flush_tlb_kernel_range(*start, *end); - if (nr) { + if (dofree) { spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); - llist_for_each_entry_safe(va, n_va, valist, purge_list) + llist_for_each_entry_safe(va, n_va, valist, purge_list) { __free_vmap_area(va); + atomic_sub(((va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT), + &vmap_lazy_nr); + cond_resched_lock(&vmap_area_lock); + } spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock); } - spin_unlock(&purge_lock); + atomic_dec(&purging); } /* -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>