Re: [RFC PATCH] vm: align vma allocation and move the lock back into the struct

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On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 5:57 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 9:19 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 1:04 PM Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ACHTUNG: this is more of a request for benchmarking than a patch
> > > > > proposal at this stage
> > > > >
> > > > > I was pointed at your patch which moved the vma lock to a separate
> > > > > allocation [1]. The commit message does not say anything about making
> > > > > sure the object itself is allocated with proper alignment and I found
> > > > > that the cache creation lacks the HWCACHE_ALIGN flag, which may or may
> > > > > not be the problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > I verified with a simple one-liner than on a stock kernel the vmas keep
> > > > > roaming around with a 16-byte alignment:
> > > > > # bpftrace -e 'kretprobe:vm_area_alloc  { @[retval & 0x3f] = count(); }'
> > > > > @[16]: 39
> > > > > @[0]: 46
> > > > > @[32]: 53
> > > > > @[48]: 56
> > > > >
> > > > > Note the stock vma lock cache also lacks the alignment flag. While I
> > > > > have not verified experimentally, if they are also romaing it would mean
> > > > > that 2 unrelated vmas can false-share locks. If the patch below is a
> > > > > bust, the flag should probably be added to that one.
> > > > >
> > > > > The patch has slapped-around vma lock cache removal + HWALLOC for the
> > > > > vma cache. I left a pointer to not change relative offsets between
> > > > > current fields. I does compile without CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK.
> > > > >
> > > > > Vlastimil says you tested a case where the struct got bloated to 256
> > > > > bytes, but the lock remained separate. It is unclear to me if this
> > > > > happened with allocations made with the HWCACHE_ALIGN flag though.
> > > > >
> > > > > There is 0 urgency on my end, but it would be nice if you could try
> > > > > this out with your test rig.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Mateusz,
> > > > Sure, I'll give it a spin but I'm not optimistic. Your code looks
> > > > almost identical to my latest attempt where I tried placing vm_lock
> > > > into different cachelines including a separate one and using
> > > > HWCACHE_ALIGN. And yet all my attempts showed regression.
> > > > Just FYI, the test I'm using is the pft-threads test from mmtests
> > > > suite. I'll post results today evening.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Suren.
> > >
> > > Ok, well maybe you did not leave the pointer in place? :)
> >
> > True, maybe that will make a difference. I'll let you know soon.
> >
> > >
> > > It is plausible the problem is on vs off cpu behavior of rwsems --
> > > there is a corner case where they neglect to spin. It is plausible
> > > perf goes down simply because there is less on cpu time.
> > >
> > > Thus you bench can you make sure to time(1)?
> >
> > Sure, will do once I'm home. Thanks for the hints!
>
> Unfortunately the same regression shows its ugly face:
>
> compare-mmtests.pl Hmean results:
> Hmean     faults/cpu-1    471264.4904 (   0.00%)   473085.6736 *   0.39%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-4    434571.7116 (   0.00%)   431214.3974 *  -0.77%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-7    407755.3217 (   0.00%)   395773.4052 *  -2.94%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-12   335604.9251 (   0.00%)   285426.3358 * -14.95%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-21   187588.9077 (   0.00%)   171227.7179 *  -8.72%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-30   140875.7878 (   0.00%)   124120.3437 * -11.89%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-48   106175.5493 (   0.00%)    93073.1499 * -12.34%*
> Hmean     faults/cpu-56    92585.2536 (   0.00%)    82837.4299 * -10.53%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-1    470924.4946 (   0.00%)   472730.9937 *   0.38%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-4   1714823.8198 (   0.00%)  1693226.7248 *  -1.26%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-7   2801395.1898 (   0.00%)  2717561.9417 *  -2.99%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-12  3934168.2690 (   0.00%)  3319710.7540 * -15.62%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-21  3736832.4592 (   0.00%)  3444687.9145 *  -7.82%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-30  3845187.2636 (   0.00%)  3403585.7064 * -11.48%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-48  4712317.7461 (   0.00%)  4180658.4710 * -11.28%*
> Hmean     faults/sec-56  4873233.9844 (   0.00%)  4423608.6568 *  -9.23%*
>
> This is the time(1) output with the baseline:
> 920.47user 7748.31system 18:30.85elapsed 780%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 26385096maxresident)k
> 140848inputs+19744outputs (66major+1583463207minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> This is the time(1) output with your change:
> 1025.73user 8618.74system 19:10.79elapsed 838%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 26385116maxresident)k
> 16584inputs+19512outputs (61major+1583468687minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> Maybe it has something to do with NUMA? The system I'm running has 2 NUMA nodes:
>

hrmpf. final cheap stab I forgot to mention is that plausibly this is
all about the adjacent cacheline prefetcher.

google-fu temporarily fails me, but there was a one-liner to toggle
that on Linux. Worst case you can flip it in the BIOS

if that does not change anything, I'm going to grab a numa box of
similar scale to poke around myself, but I don't have an ETA

even so, do you have a handy one-liner to run the case with 56
threads? *maybe* comparing instructions which generate cache misses
before/after will explain what's up

> $ lscpu
> Architecture:             x86_64
>   CPU op-mode(s):         32-bit, 64-bit
>   Address sizes:          46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>   Byte Order:             Little Endian
> CPU(s):                   56
>   On-line CPU(s) list:    0-55
> Vendor ID:                GenuineIntel
>   Model name:             Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
>     CPU family:           6
>     Model:                79
>     Thread(s) per core:   2
>     Core(s) per socket:   14
>     Socket(s):            2
>     Stepping:             1
>     CPU max MHz:          3500.0000
>     CPU min MHz:          1200.0000
>     BogoMIPS:             5188.26
>     Flags:                fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
> tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_ts
>                           c arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl
> xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor
> ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm p
>                           cid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt
> tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch
> cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 pti intel_ppin ss
>                           bd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow flexpriority
> ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms
> invpcid rtm cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsave
>                           opt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total
> cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts vnmi md_clear flush_l1d
> Virtualization features:
>   Virtualization:         VT-x
> Caches (sum of all):
>   L1d:                    896 KiB (28 instances)
>   L1i:                    896 KiB (28 instances)
>   L2:                     7 MiB (28 instances)
>   L3:                     70 MiB (2 instances)
> NUMA:
>   NUMA node(s):           2
>   NUMA node0 CPU(s):      0-13,28-41
>   NUMA node1 CPU(s):      14-27,42-55
>
> Any ideas?
>
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> >
> > >
> > > For example with zsh I got:
> > > ./run-mmtests.sh --no-monitor --config configs/config-workload-pft-threads
> > >
> > > 39.35s user 445.45s system 390% cpu 124.04s (2:04.04) total
> > >
> > > I verified with offcputime-bpfcc -K that indeed there is a bunch of
> > > pft going off cpu from down_read/down_write even at the modest scale
> > > this was running in my case.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230227173632.3292573-34-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> > > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  include/linux/mm.h       | 18 +++++++--------
> > > > >  include/linux/mm_types.h | 10 ++++-----
> > > > >  kernel/fork.c            | 47 ++++------------------------------------
> > > > >  mm/userfaultfd.c         |  6 ++---
> > > > >  4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > > > > index 43b40334e9b2..6d8b668d3deb 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > > > > @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ static inline bool vma_start_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >         if (READ_ONCE(vma->vm_lock_seq) == READ_ONCE(vma->vm_mm->mm_lock_seq))
> > > > >                 return false;
> > > > >
> > > > > -       if (unlikely(down_read_trylock(&vma->vm_lock->lock) == 0))
> > > > > +       if (unlikely(down_read_trylock(&vma->vm_lock) == 0))
> > > > >                 return false;
> > > > >
> > > > >         /*
> > > > > @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static inline bool vma_start_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >          * This pairs with RELEASE semantics in vma_end_write_all().
> > > > >          */
> > > > >         if (unlikely(vma->vm_lock_seq == smp_load_acquire(&vma->vm_mm->mm_lock_seq))) {
> > > > > -               up_read(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +               up_read(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > >                 return false;
> > > > >         }
> > > > >         return true;
> > > > > @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static inline bool vma_start_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >  static inline void vma_end_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >         rcu_read_lock(); /* keeps vma alive till the end of up_read */
> > > > > -       up_read(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +       up_read(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > >         rcu_read_unlock();
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > > @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ static inline void vma_start_write(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >         if (__is_vma_write_locked(vma, &mm_lock_seq))
> > > > >                 return;
> > > > >
> > > > > -       down_write(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +       down_write(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > >         /*
> > > > >          * We should use WRITE_ONCE() here because we can have concurrent reads
> > > > >          * from the early lockless pessimistic check in vma_start_read().
> > > > > @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ static inline void vma_start_write(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >          * we should use WRITE_ONCE() for cleanliness and to keep KCSAN happy.
> > > > >          */
> > > > >         WRITE_ONCE(vma->vm_lock_seq, mm_lock_seq);
> > > > > -       up_write(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +       up_write(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > >  static inline void vma_assert_write_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > > @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static inline void vma_assert_write_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >
> > > > >  static inline void vma_assert_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >  {
> > > > > -       if (!rwsem_is_locked(&vma->vm_lock->lock))
> > > > > +       if (!rwsem_is_locked(&vma->vm_lock))
> > > > >                 vma_assert_write_locked(vma);
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > > @@ -827,10 +827,6 @@ static inline void assert_fault_locked(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > > > >
> > > > >  extern const struct vm_operations_struct vma_dummy_vm_ops;
> > > > >
> > > > > -/*
> > > > > - * WARNING: vma_init does not initialize vma->vm_lock.
> > > > > - * Use vm_area_alloc()/vm_area_free() if vma needs locking.
> > > > > - */
> > > > >  static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >         memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));
> > > > > @@ -839,6 +835,8 @@ static inline void vma_init(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > > >         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
> > > > >         vma_mark_detached(vma, false);
> > > > >         vma_numab_state_init(vma);
> > > > > +       init_rwsem(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > > +       vma->vm_lock_seq = -1;
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > >  /* Use when VMA is not part of the VMA tree and needs no locking */
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > > > > index 003619fab20e..caffdb4eeb94 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > > > > @@ -615,10 +615,6 @@ static inline struct anon_vma_name *anon_vma_name_alloc(const char *name)
> > > > >  }
> > > > >  #endif
> > > > >
> > > > > -struct vma_lock {
> > > > > -       struct rw_semaphore lock;
> > > > > -};
> > > > > -
> > > > >  struct vma_numab_state {
> > > > >         /*
> > > > >          * Initialised as time in 'jiffies' after which VMA
> > > > > @@ -716,8 +712,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
> > > > >          * slowpath.
> > > > >          */
> > > > >         int vm_lock_seq;
> > > > > -       /* Unstable RCU readers are allowed to read this. */
> > > > > -       struct vma_lock *vm_lock;
> > > > > +       void *vm_dummy;
> > > > >  #endif
> > > > >
> > > > >         /*
> > > > > @@ -770,6 +765,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
> > > > >         struct vma_numab_state *numab_state;    /* NUMA Balancing state */
> > > > >  #endif
> > > > >         struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx;
> > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > > > > +       struct rw_semaphore vm_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> > > > > +#endif
> > > > >  } __randomize_layout;
> > > > >
> > > > >  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > > > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > > > > index 92bfe56c9fed..eab04a24d5f1 100644
> > > > > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > > > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > > > > @@ -436,35 +436,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep;
> > > > >  /* SLAB cache for mm_struct structures (tsk->mm) */
> > > > >  static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep;
> > > > >
> > > > > -#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > > > > -
> > > > > -/* SLAB cache for vm_area_struct.lock */
> > > > > -static struct kmem_cache *vma_lock_cachep;
> > > > > -
> > > > > -static bool vma_lock_alloc(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > > -{
> > > > > -       vma->vm_lock = kmem_cache_alloc(vma_lock_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > > -       if (!vma->vm_lock)
> > > > > -               return false;
> > > > > -
> > > > > -       init_rwsem(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > -       vma->vm_lock_seq = -1;
> > > > > -
> > > > > -       return true;
> > > > > -}
> > > > > -
> > > > > -static inline void vma_lock_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > > -{
> > > > > -       kmem_cache_free(vma_lock_cachep, vma->vm_lock);
> > > > > -}
> > > > > -
> > > > > -#else /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
> > > > > -
> > > > > -static inline bool vma_lock_alloc(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { return true; }
> > > > > -static inline void vma_lock_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma) {}
> > > > > -
> > > > > -#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
> > > > > -
> > > > >  struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >         struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > > > > @@ -474,10 +445,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > > >                 return NULL;
> > > > >
> > > > >         vma_init(vma, mm);
> > > > > -       if (!vma_lock_alloc(vma)) {
> > > > > -               kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> > > > > -               return NULL;
> > > > > -       }
> > > > >
> > > > >         return vma;
> > > > >  }
> > > > > @@ -496,10 +463,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
> > > > >          * will be reinitialized.
> > > > >          */
> > > > >         data_race(memcpy(new, orig, sizeof(*new)));
> > > > > -       if (!vma_lock_alloc(new)) {
> > > > > -               kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, new);
> > > > > -               return NULL;
> > > > > -       }
> > > > > +       init_rwsem(&new->vm_lock);
> > > > > +       new->vm_lock_seq = -1;
> > > > >         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new->anon_vma_chain);
> > > > >         vma_numab_state_init(new);
> > > > >         dup_anon_vma_name(orig, new);
> > > > > @@ -511,7 +476,6 @@ void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > > > >  {
> > > > >         vma_numab_state_free(vma);
> > > > >         free_anon_vma_name(vma);
> > > > > -       vma_lock_free(vma);
> > > > >         kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > > @@ -522,7 +486,7 @@ static void vm_area_free_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *head)
> > > > >                                                   vm_rcu);
> > > > >
> > > > >         /* The vma should not be locked while being destroyed. */
> > > > > -       VM_BUG_ON_VMA(rwsem_is_locked(&vma->vm_lock->lock), vma);
> > > > > +       VM_BUG_ON_VMA(rwsem_is_locked(&vma->vm_lock), vma);
> > > > >         __vm_area_free(vma);
> > > > >  }
> > > > >  #endif
> > > > > @@ -3192,10 +3156,7 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
> > > > >                         SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
> > > > >                         NULL);
> > > > >
> > > > > -       vm_area_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(vm_area_struct, SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT);
> > > > > -#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > > > > -       vma_lock_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(vma_lock, SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT);
> > > > > -#endif
> > > > > +       vm_area_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(vm_area_struct, SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT|SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN);
> > > > >         mmap_init();
> > > > >         nsproxy_cache_init();
> > > > >  }
> > > > > diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> > > > > index 3b7715ecf292..e95ecb2063d2 100644
> > > > > --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
> > > > > +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> > > > > @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static struct vm_area_struct *uffd_lock_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > > > >                  * mmap_lock, which guarantees that nobody can lock the
> > > > >                  * vma for write (vma_start_write()) under us.
> > > > >                  */
> > > > > -               down_read(&vma->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +               down_read(&vma->vm_lock);
> > > > >         }
> > > > >
> > > > >         mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > > > > @@ -1468,9 +1468,9 @@ static int uffd_move_lock(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > > > >                  * See comment in uffd_lock_vma() as to why not using
> > > > >                  * vma_start_read() here.
> > > > >                  */
> > > > > -               down_read(&(*dst_vmap)->vm_lock->lock);
> > > > > +               down_read(&(*dst_vmap)->vm_lock);
> > > > >                 if (*dst_vmap != *src_vmap)
> > > > > -                       down_read_nested(&(*src_vmap)->vm_lock->lock,
> > > > > +                       down_read_nested(&(*src_vmap)->vm_lock,
> > > > >                                          SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
> > > > >         }
> > > > >         mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.43.0
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>



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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>





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