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[1/2] cpufreq: userspace: Use fine-grained mutex in userspace governor

Message ID 20230912061057.2516963-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
State Accepted
Commit 285189c57391360701af348cd57ca0ba8cbf7ff6
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Series [1/2] cpufreq: userspace: Use fine-grained mutex in userspace governor | expand

Commit Message

Liao Chang Sept. 12, 2023, 6:10 a.m. UTC
The userspace governor currently uses a big global mutex to avoid the
race condition on the governor_data field of cpufreq_policy structure.
This leads to a low concurrency if multiple userspace applications are
trying to set the speed of different policies at the same time. This
patch introduces a per-policy mutex to allow the updating of different
policies to be performed concurrently, improving overall concurrency.

Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Comments

Viresh Kumar Oct. 5, 2023, 11:02 a.m. UTC | #1
On 12-09-23, 06:10, Liao Chang wrote:
> The userspace governor currently uses a big global mutex to avoid the
> race condition on the governor_data field of cpufreq_policy structure.
> This leads to a low concurrency if multiple userspace applications are
> trying to set the speed of different policies at the same time. This
> patch introduces a per-policy mutex to allow the updating of different
> policies to be performed concurrently, improving overall concurrency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> index 50a4d7846580..442e31060d62 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, cpu_is_managed);
> -static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
> +
> +struct userspace_policy {
> +	unsigned int setspeed;
> +	struct mutex mutex;
> +};
>  
>  /**
>   * cpufreq_set - set the CPU frequency
> @@ -28,19 +32,19 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
>  static int cpufreq_set(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int freq)
>  {
>  	int ret = -EINVAL;
> -	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> +	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
>  
>  	pr_debug("cpufreq_set for cpu %u, freq %u kHz\n", policy->cpu, freq);
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
>  	if (!per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu))
>  		goto err;
>  
> -	*setspeed = freq;
> +	userspace->setspeed = freq;
>  
>  	ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, freq, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
>   err:
> -	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -51,67 +55,74 @@ static ssize_t show_speed(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
>  
>  static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> -	unsigned int *setspeed;
> +	struct userspace_policy *userspace;
>  
> -	setspeed = kzalloc(sizeof(*setspeed), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!setspeed)
> +	userspace = kzalloc(sizeof(*userspace), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!userspace)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	policy->governor_data = setspeed;
> +	mutex_init(&userspace->mutex);
> +
> +	policy->governor_data = userspace;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Any routine that writes to the policy struct will hold the "rwsem" of
> + * policy struct that means it is free to free "governor_data" here.
> + */
>  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> -	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
>  	kfree(policy->governor_data);
>  	policy->governor_data = NULL;
> -	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
>  }
>  
>  static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_start(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> -	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> +	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(!policy->cur);
>  	pr_debug("started managing cpu %u\n", policy->cpu);
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
>  	per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 1;
> -	*setspeed = policy->cur;
> -	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	userspace->setspeed = policy->cur;
> +	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_stop(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> -	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> +	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
>  
>  	pr_debug("managing cpu %u stopped\n", policy->cpu);
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
>  	per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 0;
> -	*setspeed = 0;
> -	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	userspace->setspeed = 0;
> +	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
>  }
>  
>  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_limits(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> -	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> +	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
>  
>  	pr_debug("limit event for cpu %u: %u - %u kHz, currently %u kHz, last set to %u kHz\n",
> -		 policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, *setspeed);
> -
> -	if (policy->max < *setspeed)
> -		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max, CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
> -	else if (policy->min > *setspeed)
> -		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> +		 policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, userspace->setspeed);
> +
> +	if (policy->max < userspace->setspeed)
> +		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max,
> +					CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
> +	else if (policy->min > userspace->setspeed)
> +		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min,
> +					CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
>  	else
> -		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, *setspeed, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> +		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, userspace->setspeed,
> +					CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
>  
> -	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> +	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
>  }
>  
>  static struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_userspace = {

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki Oct. 6, 2023, 8:03 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:05 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 12-09-23, 06:10, Liao Chang wrote:
> > The userspace governor currently uses a big global mutex to avoid the
> > race condition on the governor_data field of cpufreq_policy structure.
> > This leads to a low concurrency if multiple userspace applications are
> > trying to set the speed of different policies at the same time. This
> > patch introduces a per-policy mutex to allow the updating of different
> > policies to be performed concurrently, improving overall concurrency.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> > index 50a4d7846580..442e31060d62 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
> > @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >
> >  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, cpu_is_managed);
> > -static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
> > +
> > +struct userspace_policy {
> > +     unsigned int setspeed;
> > +     struct mutex mutex;
> > +};
> >
> >  /**
> >   * cpufreq_set - set the CPU frequency
> > @@ -28,19 +32,19 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
> >  static int cpufreq_set(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int freq)
> >  {
> >       int ret = -EINVAL;
> > -     unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> > +     struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
> >
> >       pr_debug("cpufreq_set for cpu %u, freq %u kHz\n", policy->cpu, freq);
> >
> > -     mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
> >       if (!per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu))
> >               goto err;
> >
> > -     *setspeed = freq;
> > +     userspace->setspeed = freq;
> >
> >       ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, freq, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> >   err:
> > -     mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -51,67 +55,74 @@ static ssize_t show_speed(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
> >
> >  static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > -     unsigned int *setspeed;
> > +     struct userspace_policy *userspace;
> >
> > -     setspeed = kzalloc(sizeof(*setspeed), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -     if (!setspeed)
> > +     userspace = kzalloc(sizeof(*userspace), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     if (!userspace)
> >               return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > -     policy->governor_data = setspeed;
> > +     mutex_init(&userspace->mutex);
> > +
> > +     policy->governor_data = userspace;
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Any routine that writes to the policy struct will hold the "rwsem" of
> > + * policy struct that means it is free to free "governor_data" here.
> > + */
> >  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > -     mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> >       kfree(policy->governor_data);
> >       policy->governor_data = NULL;
> > -     mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> >  }
> >
> >  static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_start(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > -     unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> > +     struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
> >
> >       BUG_ON(!policy->cur);
> >       pr_debug("started managing cpu %u\n", policy->cpu);
> >
> > -     mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
> >       per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 1;
> > -     *setspeed = policy->cur;
> > -     mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     userspace->setspeed = policy->cur;
> > +     mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> >  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_stop(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > -     unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> > +     struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
> >
> >       pr_debug("managing cpu %u stopped\n", policy->cpu);
> >
> > -     mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
> >       per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 0;
> > -     *setspeed = 0;
> > -     mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     userspace->setspeed = 0;
> > +     mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
> >  }
> >
> >  static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_limits(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > -     unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
> > +     struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
> >
> > -     mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
> >
> >       pr_debug("limit event for cpu %u: %u - %u kHz, currently %u kHz, last set to %u kHz\n",
> > -              policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, *setspeed);
> > -
> > -     if (policy->max < *setspeed)
> > -             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max, CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
> > -     else if (policy->min > *setspeed)
> > -             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> > +              policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, userspace->setspeed);
> > +
> > +     if (policy->max < userspace->setspeed)
> > +             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max,
> > +                                     CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
> > +     else if (policy->min > userspace->setspeed)
> > +             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min,
> > +                                     CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> >       else
> > -             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, *setspeed, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> > +             __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, userspace->setspeed,
> > +                                     CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> >
> > -     mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
> >  }
> >
> >  static struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_userspace = {
>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

Applied as 6.7 material along with the [2/2], thanks!
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diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
index 50a4d7846580..442e31060d62 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, cpu_is_managed);
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
+
+struct userspace_policy {
+	unsigned int setspeed;
+	struct mutex mutex;
+};
 
 /**
  * cpufreq_set - set the CPU frequency
@@ -28,19 +32,19 @@  static DEFINE_MUTEX(userspace_mutex);
 static int cpufreq_set(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int freq)
 {
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
-	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
+	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
 
 	pr_debug("cpufreq_set for cpu %u, freq %u kHz\n", policy->cpu, freq);
 
-	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
 	if (!per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu))
 		goto err;
 
-	*setspeed = freq;
+	userspace->setspeed = freq;
 
 	ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, freq, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
  err:
-	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -51,67 +55,74 @@  static ssize_t show_speed(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 
 static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
-	unsigned int *setspeed;
+	struct userspace_policy *userspace;
 
-	setspeed = kzalloc(sizeof(*setspeed), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!setspeed)
+	userspace = kzalloc(sizeof(*userspace), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!userspace)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	policy->governor_data = setspeed;
+	mutex_init(&userspace->mutex);
+
+	policy->governor_data = userspace;
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Any routine that writes to the policy struct will hold the "rwsem" of
+ * policy struct that means it is free to free "governor_data" here.
+ */
 static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
-	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
 	kfree(policy->governor_data);
 	policy->governor_data = NULL;
-	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
 }
 
 static int cpufreq_userspace_policy_start(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
-	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
+	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
 
 	BUG_ON(!policy->cur);
 	pr_debug("started managing cpu %u\n", policy->cpu);
 
-	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
 	per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 1;
-	*setspeed = policy->cur;
-	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
+	userspace->setspeed = policy->cur;
+	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_stop(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
-	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
+	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
 
 	pr_debug("managing cpu %u stopped\n", policy->cpu);
 
-	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
 	per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu) = 0;
-	*setspeed = 0;
-	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
+	userspace->setspeed = 0;
+	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
 }
 
 static void cpufreq_userspace_policy_limits(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
-	unsigned int *setspeed = policy->governor_data;
+	struct userspace_policy *userspace = policy->governor_data;
 
-	mutex_lock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&userspace->mutex);
 
 	pr_debug("limit event for cpu %u: %u - %u kHz, currently %u kHz, last set to %u kHz\n",
-		 policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, *setspeed);
-
-	if (policy->max < *setspeed)
-		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max, CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
-	else if (policy->min > *setspeed)
-		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
+		 policy->cpu, policy->min, policy->max, policy->cur, userspace->setspeed);
+
+	if (policy->max < userspace->setspeed)
+		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->max,
+					CPUFREQ_RELATION_H);
+	else if (policy->min > userspace->setspeed)
+		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->min,
+					CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
 	else
-		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, *setspeed, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
+		__cpufreq_driver_target(policy, userspace->setspeed,
+					CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
 
-	mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&userspace->mutex);
 }
 
 static struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_userspace = {