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test_rhashtable: remove semaphore usage

Message ID 20181210211957.210189-1-arnd@arndb.de
State Superseded
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Series test_rhashtable: remove semaphore usage | expand

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Arnd Bergmann Dec. 10, 2018, 9:17 p.m. UTC
This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.

This gets us a little bit closer to eliminating classic semaphores from
the kernel. It also fixes a corner case where we fail to continue after
one of the threads fails to start up.

An alternative would be to use a split kthread_create()+wake_up_process()
and completely eliminate the separate synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

---
This is part of a longer, untested, series to remove semaphores
from the kernel, please review as such before applying.
---
 lib/test_rhashtable.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

-- 
2.20.0

Comments

David Miller Dec. 11, 2018, 1:29 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:17:20 +0100

> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative

> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do

> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a

> single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.

> 

> This gets us a little bit closer to eliminating classic semaphores from

> the kernel. It also fixes a corner case where we fail to continue after

> one of the threads fails to start up.

> 

> An alternative would be to use a split kthread_create()+wake_up_process()

> and completely eliminate the separate synchronization.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> ---

> This is part of a longer, untested, series to remove semaphores

> from the kernel, please review as such before applying.


This looks fine to me, although it seems kinda weird how the
synchronization works in that the N - 1 child threads will
be awoken two times, once when child N decrements the count
to zero and once when the parent decrements the count to -1
which lets us past the wait_event_interruptibel().

Nevertheless it should work just fine and I have no problems
with it.

Want me to apply this to net-next?

Thanks.
Herbert Xu Dec. 11, 2018, 5:45 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:17:20PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative

> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do

> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a

> single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.

> 

> This gets us a little bit closer to eliminating classic semaphores from

> the kernel. It also fixes a corner case where we fail to continue after

> one of the threads fails to start up.

> 

> An alternative would be to use a split kthread_create()+wake_up_process()

> and completely eliminate the separate synchronization.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> ---

> This is part of a longer, untested, series to remove semaphores

> from the kernel, please review as such before applying.

> ---

>  lib/test_rhashtable.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------

>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)


This was created by Phil Sutter so I am adding him to the cc list.

> diff --git a/lib/test_rhashtable.c b/lib/test_rhashtable.c

> index 18de5ff1255b..12bdea4f6c20 100644

> --- a/lib/test_rhashtable.c

> +++ b/lib/test_rhashtable.c

> @@ -20,11 +20,11 @@

>  #include <linux/module.h>

>  #include <linux/rcupdate.h>

>  #include <linux/rhashtable.h>

> -#include <linux/semaphore.h>

>  #include <linux/slab.h>

>  #include <linux/sched.h>

>  #include <linux/random.h>

>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>

> +#include <linux/wait.h>

>  

>  #define MAX_ENTRIES	1000000

>  #define TEST_INSERT_FAIL INT_MAX

> @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ static struct rhashtable_params test_rht_params_dup = {

>  	.automatic_shrinking = false,

>  };

>  

> -static struct semaphore prestart_sem, startup_sem;

> +static atomic_t startup_count;

> +static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(startup_wait);

>  

>  static int insert_retry(struct rhashtable *ht, struct test_obj *obj,

>                          const struct rhashtable_params params)

> @@ -635,8 +636,9 @@ static int threadfunc(void *data)

>  	int i, step, err = 0, insert_retries = 0;

>  	struct thread_data *tdata = data;

>  

> -	up(&prestart_sem);

> -	if (down_interruptible(&startup_sem))

> +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&startup_count))

> +		wake_up(&startup_wait);

> +	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == -1))

>  		pr_err("  thread[%d]: down_interruptible failed\n", tdata->id);

>  

>  	for (i = 0; i < tdata->entries; i++) {

> @@ -756,8 +758,7 @@ static int __init test_rht_init(void)

>  

>  	pr_info("Testing concurrent rhashtable access from %d threads\n",

>  	        tcount);

> -	sema_init(&prestart_sem, 1 - tcount);

> -	sema_init(&startup_sem, 0);

> +	atomic_set(&startup_count, tcount);

>  	tdata = vzalloc(array_size(tcount, sizeof(struct thread_data)));

>  	if (!tdata)

>  		return -ENOMEM;

> @@ -783,15 +784,18 @@ static int __init test_rht_init(void)

>  		tdata[i].objs = objs + i * entries;

>  		tdata[i].task = kthread_run(threadfunc, &tdata[i],

>  		                            "rhashtable_thrad[%d]", i);

> -		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task))

> +		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task)) {

>  			pr_err(" kthread_run failed for thread %d\n", i);

> -		else

> +			atomic_dec(&startup_count);

> +		} else {

>  			started_threads++;

> +		}

>  	}

> -	if (down_interruptible(&prestart_sem))

> -		pr_err("  down interruptible failed\n");

> -	for (i = 0; i < tcount; i++)

> -		up(&startup_sem);

> +	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == 0))

> +		pr_err("  wait_event interruptible failed\n");

> +	/* count is 0 now, set it to -1 and wake up all threads together */

> +	atomic_dec(&startup_count);

> +	wake_up_all(&startup_wait);

>  	for (i = 0; i < tcount; i++) {

>  		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task))

>  			continue;

> -- 

> 2.20.0

> 


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Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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Phil Sutter Dec. 11, 2018, 7:38 a.m. UTC | #3
Hi,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 01:45:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:17:20PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative

> > value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do

> > the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a

> > single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.

> > 

> > This gets us a little bit closer to eliminating classic semaphores from

> > the kernel. It also fixes a corner case where we fail to continue after

> > one of the threads fails to start up.

> > 

> > An alternative would be to use a split kthread_create()+wake_up_process()

> > and completely eliminate the separate synchronization.

> > 

> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> > ---

> > This is part of a longer, untested, series to remove semaphores

> > from the kernel, please review as such before applying.

> > ---

> >  lib/test_rhashtable.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------

> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

> 

> This was created by Phil Sutter so I am adding him to the cc list.


Thanks, I would have missed it otherwise. Just a minor nit:

> > diff --git a/lib/test_rhashtable.c b/lib/test_rhashtable.c

> > index 18de5ff1255b..12bdea4f6c20 100644

> > --- a/lib/test_rhashtable.c

> > +++ b/lib/test_rhashtable.c

[...]
> > @@ -635,8 +636,9 @@ static int threadfunc(void *data)

> >  	int i, step, err = 0, insert_retries = 0;

> >  	struct thread_data *tdata = data;

> >  

> > -	up(&prestart_sem);

> > -	if (down_interruptible(&startup_sem))

> > +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&startup_count))

> > +		wake_up(&startup_wait);

> > +	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == -1))

> >  		pr_err("  thread[%d]: down_interruptible failed\n", tdata->id);


The error message should probably be adjusted as well. Apart from that:

Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>


Thanks, Phil
David Miller Dec. 14, 2018, 9:25 p.m. UTC | #4
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:17:20 +0100

> @@ -635,8 +636,9 @@ static int threadfunc(void *data)

>  	int i, step, err = 0, insert_retries = 0;

>  	struct thread_data *tdata = data;

>  

> -	up(&prestart_sem);

> -	if (down_interruptible(&startup_sem))

> +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&startup_count))

> +		wake_up(&startup_wait);

> +	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == -1))

>  		pr_err("  thread[%d]: down_interruptible failed\n", tdata->id);


Arnd, please adjust this pr_err() text to match the new code as pointed out by
Phil Sutter.

Thank you.
Arnd Bergmann Dec. 16, 2018, 7:50 p.m. UTC | #5
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:25 PM David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:17:20 +0100

>

> > @@ -635,8 +636,9 @@ static int threadfunc(void *data)

> >       int i, step, err = 0, insert_retries = 0;

> >       struct thread_data *tdata = data;

> >

> > -     up(&prestart_sem);

> > -     if (down_interruptible(&startup_sem))

> > +     if (atomic_dec_and_test(&startup_count))

> > +             wake_up(&startup_wait);

> > +     if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == -1))

> >               pr_err("  thread[%d]: down_interruptible failed\n", tdata->id);

>

> Arnd, please adjust this pr_err() text to match the new code as pointed out by

> Phil Sutter.


Done, and resent as v2. I also noticed that the version I sent did not apply
cleanly on current kernels, so I fixed that, and also added a 'goto out' in
the kthread after printing the error message, so an interrupted thread would
exist straight away.

         Arnd
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/test_rhashtable.c b/lib/test_rhashtable.c
index 18de5ff1255b..12bdea4f6c20 100644
--- a/lib/test_rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/test_rhashtable.c
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/rhashtable.h>
-#include <linux/semaphore.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
 
 #define MAX_ENTRIES	1000000
 #define TEST_INSERT_FAIL INT_MAX
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@  static struct rhashtable_params test_rht_params_dup = {
 	.automatic_shrinking = false,
 };
 
-static struct semaphore prestart_sem, startup_sem;
+static atomic_t startup_count;
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(startup_wait);
 
 static int insert_retry(struct rhashtable *ht, struct test_obj *obj,
                         const struct rhashtable_params params)
@@ -635,8 +636,9 @@  static int threadfunc(void *data)
 	int i, step, err = 0, insert_retries = 0;
 	struct thread_data *tdata = data;
 
-	up(&prestart_sem);
-	if (down_interruptible(&startup_sem))
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&startup_count))
+		wake_up(&startup_wait);
+	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == -1))
 		pr_err("  thread[%d]: down_interruptible failed\n", tdata->id);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < tdata->entries; i++) {
@@ -756,8 +758,7 @@  static int __init test_rht_init(void)
 
 	pr_info("Testing concurrent rhashtable access from %d threads\n",
 	        tcount);
-	sema_init(&prestart_sem, 1 - tcount);
-	sema_init(&startup_sem, 0);
+	atomic_set(&startup_count, tcount);
 	tdata = vzalloc(array_size(tcount, sizeof(struct thread_data)));
 	if (!tdata)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -783,15 +784,18 @@  static int __init test_rht_init(void)
 		tdata[i].objs = objs + i * entries;
 		tdata[i].task = kthread_run(threadfunc, &tdata[i],
 		                            "rhashtable_thrad[%d]", i);
-		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task))
+		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task)) {
 			pr_err(" kthread_run failed for thread %d\n", i);
-		else
+			atomic_dec(&startup_count);
+		} else {
 			started_threads++;
+		}
 	}
-	if (down_interruptible(&prestart_sem))
-		pr_err("  down interruptible failed\n");
-	for (i = 0; i < tcount; i++)
-		up(&startup_sem);
+	if (wait_event_interruptible(startup_wait, atomic_read(&startup_count) == 0))
+		pr_err("  wait_event interruptible failed\n");
+	/* count is 0 now, set it to -1 and wake up all threads together */
+	atomic_dec(&startup_count);
+	wake_up_all(&startup_wait);
 	for (i = 0; i < tcount; i++) {
 		if (IS_ERR(tdata[i].task))
 			continue;