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Konstantin Khlebnikov
78c1d78488 radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
A series of radix tree cleanups, and usage of them in the core pagecache
code.

Micro-benchmark:

lookup 14 slots (typical page-vector size)
in radix-tree there earch <step> slot filled and tagged
before/after - nsec per full scan through tree

* Intel Sandy Bridge i7-2620M 4Mb L3
New code always faster

* AMD Athlon 6000+ 2x1Mb L2, without L3
New code generally faster,
Minor degradation (marked with "*") for huge sparse trees

* i386 on Sandy Bridge
New code faster for common cases: tagged and dense trees.
Some degradations for non-tagged lookup on sparse trees.

Ideally, there might help __ffs() analog for searching first non-zero
long element in array, gcc sometimes cannot optimize this loop corretly.

Numbers:

CPU: Intel Sandy Bridge i7-2620M 4Mb L3

radix-tree with 1024 slots:

tagged lookup

step  1      before  7156        after  3613
step  2      before  5399        after  2696
step  3      before  4779        after  1928
step  4      before  4456        after  1429
step  5      before  4292        after  1213
step  6      before  4183        after  1052
step  7      before  4157        after  951
step  8      before  4016        after  812
step  9      before  3952        after  851
step  10     before  3937        after  732
step  11     before  4023        after  709
step  12     before  3872        after  657
step  13     before  3892        after  633
step  14     before  3720        after  591
step  15     before  3879        after  578
step  16     before  3561        after  513

normal lookup

step  1      before  4266       after  3301
step  2      before  2695       after  2129
step  3      before  2083       after  1712
step  4      before  1801       after  1534
step  5      before  1628       after  1313
step  6      before  1551       after  1263
step  7      before  1475       after  1185
step  8      before  1432       after  1167
step  9      before  1373       after  1092
step  10     before  1339       after  1134
step  11     before  1292       after  1056
step  12     before  1319       after  1030
step  13     before  1276       after  1004
step  14     before  1256       after  987
step  15     before  1228       after  992
step  16     before  1247       after  999

radix-tree with 1024*1024*128 slots:

tagged lookup

step  1      before  1086102841  after  674196409
step  2      before  816839155   after  498138306
step  7      before  599728907   after  240676762
step  15     before  555729253   after  185219677
step  63     before  606637748   after  128585664
step  64     before  608384432   after  102945089
step  65     before  596987114   after  123996019
step  128    before  304459225   after  56783056
step  256    before  158846855   after  31232481
step  512    before  86085652    after  18950595
step  12345  before  6517189     after  1674057

normal lookup

step  1      before  626064869  after  544418266
step  2      before  418809975  after  336321473
step  7      before  242303598  after  207755560
step  15     before  208380563  after  176496355
step  63     before  186854206  after  167283638
step  64     before  176188060  after  170143976
step  65     before  185139608  after  167487116
step  128    before  88181865   after  86913490
step  256    before  45733628   after  45143534
step  512    before  24506038   after  23859036
step  12345  before  2177425    after  2018662

* AMD Athlon 6000+ 2x1Mb L2, without L3

radix-tree with 1024 slots:

tag-lookup

step  1      before  8164        after  5379
step  2      before  5818        after  5581
step  3      before  4959        after  4213
step  4      before  4371        after  3386
step  5      before  4204        after  2997
step  6      before  4950        after  2744
step  7      before  4598        after  2480
step  8      before  4251        after  2288
step  9      before  4262        after  2243
step  10     before  4175        after  2131
step  11     before  3999        after  2024
step  12     before  3979        after  1994
step  13     before  3842        after  1929
step  14     before  3750        after  1810
step  15     before  3735        after  1810
step  16     before  3532        after  1660

normal-lookup

step  1      before  7875        after  5847
step  2      before  4808        after  4071
step  3      before  4073        after  3462
step  4      before  3677        after  3074
step  5      before  4308        after  2978
step  6      before  3911        after  3807
step  7      before  3635        after  3522
step  8      before  3313        after  3202
step  9      before  3280        after  3257
step  10     before  3166        after  3083
step  11     before  3066        after  3026
step  12     before  2985        after  2982
step  13     before  2925        after  2924
step  14     before  2834        after  2808
step  15     before  2805        after  2803
step  16     before  2647        after  2622

radix-tree with 1024*1024*128 slots:

tag-lookup

step  1      before  1288059720  after  951736580
step  2      before  961292300   after  884212140
step  7      before  768905140   after  547267580
step  15     before  771319480   after  456550640
step  63     before  504847640   after  242704304
step  64     before  392484800   after  177920786
step  65     before  491162160   after  246895264
step  128    before  208084064   after  97348392
step  256    before  112401035   after  51408126
step  512    before  75825834    after  29145070
step  12345  before  5603166     after  2847330

normal-lookup

step  1      before  1025677120  after  861375100
step  2      before  647220080   after  572258540
step  7      before  505518960   after  484041813
step  15     before  430483053   after  444815320	*
step  63     before  388113453   after  404250546	*
step  64     before  374154666   after  396027440	*
step  65     before  381423973   after  396704853	*
step  128    before  190078700   after  202619384	*
step  256    before  100886756   after  102829108	*
step  512    before  64074505    after  56158720
step  12345  before  4237289     after  4422299		*

* i686 on Sandy bridge

radix-tree with 1024 slots:

tagged lookup

step  1      before  7990        after  4019
step  2      before  5698        after  2897
step  3      before  5013        after  2475
step  4      before  4630        after  1721
step  5      before  4346        after  1759
step  6      before  4299        after  1556
step  7      before  4098        after  1513
step  8      before  4115        after  1222
step  9      before  3983        after  1390
step  10     before  4077        after  1207
step  11     before  3921        after  1231
step  12     before  3894        after  1116
step  13     before  3840        after  1147
step  14     before  3799        after  1090
step  15     before  3797        after  1059
step  16     before  3783        after  745

normal lookup

step  1      before  5103       after  3499
step  2      before  3299       after  2550
step  3      before  2489       after  2370
step  4      before  2034       after  2302		*
step  5      before  1846       after  2268		*
step  6      before  1752       after  2249		*
step  7      before  1679       after  2164		*
step  8      before  1627       after  2153		*
step  9      before  1542       after  2095		*
step  10     before  1479       after  2109		*
step  11     before  1469       after  2009		*
step  12     before  1445       after  2039		*
step  13     before  1411       after  2013		*
step  14     before  1374       after  2046		*
step  15     before  1340       after  1975		*
step  16     before  1331       after  2000		*

radix-tree with 1024*1024*128 slots:

tagged lookup

step  1      before  1225865377  after  667153553
step  2      before  842427423   after  471533007
step  7      before  609296153   after  276260116
step  15     before  544232060   after  226859105
step  63     before  519209199   after  141343043
step  64     before  588980279   after  141951339
step  65     before  521099710   after  138282060
step  128    before  298476778   after  83390628
step  256    before  149358342   after  43602609
step  512    before  76994713    after  22911077
step  12345  before  5328666     after  1472111

normal lookup

step  1      before  819284564  after  533635310
step  2      before  512421605  after  364956155
step  7      before  271443305  after  305721345	*
step  15     before  223591630  after  273960216	*
step  63     before  190320247  after  217770207	*
step  64     before  178538168  after  267411372	*
step  65     before  186400423  after  215347937	*
step  128    before  88106045   after  140540612	*
step  256    before  44812420   after  70660377		*
step  512    before  24435438   after  36328275		*
step  12345  before  2123924    after  2148062		*

bloat-o-meter delta for this patchset + patchset with related shmem cleanups

bloat-o-meter: x86_64

add/remove: 4/3 grow/shrink: 5/6 up/down: 928/-939 (-11)
function                                     old     new   delta
radix_tree_next_chunk                          -     499    +499
shmem_unuse                                  428     554    +126
shmem_radix_tree_replace                     131     227     +96
find_get_pages_tag                           354     419     +65
find_get_pages_contig                        345     407     +62
find_get_pages                               362     396     +34
__kstrtab_radix_tree_next_chunk                -      22     +22
__ksymtab_radix_tree_next_chunk                -      16     +16
__kcrctab_radix_tree_next_chunk                -       8      +8
radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot                  204     203      -1
static.shmem_xattr_set                       384     381      -3
radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag_slot              208     191     -17
radix_tree_gang_lookup                       231     187     -44
radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag                   247     199     -48
shmem_unlock_mapping                         278     190     -88
__lookup                                     217       -    -217
__lookup_tag                                 242       -    -242
radix_tree_locate_item                       279       -    -279

bloat-o-meter: i386

add/remove: 3/3 grow/shrink: 8/9 up/down: 1075/-1275 (-200)
function                                     old     new   delta
radix_tree_next_chunk                          -     757    +757
shmem_unuse                                  352     449     +97
find_get_pages_contig                        269     322     +53
shmem_radix_tree_replace                     113     154     +41
find_get_pages_tag                           277     318     +41
dcache_dir_lseek                             426     458     +32
__kstrtab_radix_tree_next_chunk                -      22     +22
vc_do_resize                                 968     977      +9
snd_pcm_lib_read1                            725     733      +8
__ksymtab_radix_tree_next_chunk                -       8      +8
netlbl_cipsov4_list                         1120    1127      +7
find_get_pages                               293     291      -2
new_slab                                     467     459      -8
bitfill_unaligned_rev                        425     417      -8
radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag_slot              177     146     -31
blk_dump_cmd                                 267     229     -38
radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot                  212     134     -78
shmem_unlock_mapping                         221     128     -93
radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag                   275     162    -113
radix_tree_gang_lookup                       255     126    -129
__lookup                                     227       -    -227
__lookup_tag                                 271       -    -271
radix_tree_locate_item                       277       -    -277

This patch:

Implement a clean, simple and effective radix-tree iteration routine.

Iterating divided into two phases:
* lookup next chunk in radix-tree leaf node
* iterating through slots in this chunk

Main iterator function radix_tree_next_chunk() returns pointer to first
slot, and stores in the struct radix_tree_iter index of next-to-last slot.
 For tagged-iterating it also constuct bitmask of tags for retunted chunk.
 All additional logic implemented as static-inline functions and macroses.

Also adds radix_tree_find_next_bit() static-inline variant of
find_next_bit() optimized for small constant size arrays, because
find_next_bit() too heavy for searching in an array with one/two long
elements.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework comments a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28 17:14:37 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
187f1882b5 BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any
other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then
that header really should be including <linux/bug.h> and not just
expecting it to be implicitly present.

We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these
headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have
been causing compile failures/warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-03-04 17:54:34 -05:00
Xiao Guangrong
928da837ac radix_tree: remove radix_tree_indirect_to_ptr()
It is not used anymore, remove it

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:12 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
e504f3fdd6 tmpfs radix_tree: locate_item to speed up swapoff
We have already acknowledged that swapoff of a tmpfs file is slower than
it was before conversion to the generic radix_tree: a little slower
there will be acceptable, if the hotter paths are faster.

But it was a shock to find swapoff of a 500MB file 20 times slower on my
laptop, taking 10 minutes; and at that rate it significantly slows down
my testing.

Now, most of that turned out to be overhead from PROVE_LOCKING and
PROVE_RCU: without those it was only 4 times slower than before; and
more realistic tests on other machines don't fare as badly.

I've tried a number of things to improve it, including tagging the swap
entries, then doing lookup by tag: I'd expected that to halve the time,
but in practice it's erratic, and often counter-productive.

The only change I've so far found to make a consistent improvement, is
to short-circuit the way we go back and forth, gang lookup packing
entries into the array supplied, then shmem scanning that array for the
target entry.  Scanning in place doubles the speed, so it's now only
twice as slow as before (or three times slower when the PROVEs are on).

So, add radix_tree_locate_item() as an expedient, once-off,
single-caller hack to do the lookup directly in place.  #ifdef it on
CONFIG_SHMEM and CONFIG_SWAP, as much to document its limited
applicability as save space in other configurations.  And, sadly,
#include sched.h for cond_resched().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
Hugh Dickins
6328650bb4 radix_tree: exceptional entries and indices
A patchset to extend tmpfs to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE by abandoning its
peculiar swap vector, instead keeping a file's swap entries in the same
radix tree as its struct page pointers: thus saving memory, and
simplifying its code and locking.

This patch:

The radix_tree is used by several subsystems for different purposes.  A
major use is to store the struct page pointers of a file's pagecache for
memory management.  But what if mm wanted to store something other than
page pointers there too?

The low bit of a radix_tree entry is already used to denote an indirect
pointer, for internal use, and the unlikely radix_tree_deref_retry()
case.

Define the next bit as denoting an exceptional entry, and supply inline
functions radix_tree_exception() to return non-0 in either unlikely
case, and radix_tree_exceptional_entry() to return non-0 in the second
case.

If a subsystem already uses radix_tree with that bit set, no problem: it
does not affect internal workings at all, but is defined for the
convenience of those storing well-aligned pointers in the radix_tree.

The radix_tree_gang_lookups have an implicit assumption that the caller
can deduce the offset of each entry returned e.g.  by the page->index of
a struct page.  But that may not be feasible for some kinds of item to
be stored there.

radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot() allow for an optional indices argument,
output array in which to return those offsets.  The same could be added
to other radix_tree_gang_lookups, but for now keep it to the only one
for which we need it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:22 -10:00
Mel Gorman
29c1f677d4 mm: migration: use rcu_dereference_protected when dereferencing the radix tree slot during file page migration
migrate_pages() -> unmap_and_move() only calls rcu_read_lock() for
anonymous pages, as introduced by git commit
989f89c57e ("fix rcu_read_lock() in page
migraton").  The point of the RCU protection there is part of getting a
stable reference to anon_vma and is only held for anon pages as file pages
are locked which is sufficient protection against freeing.

However, while a file page's mapping is being migrated, the radix tree is
double checked to ensure it is the expected page.  This uses
radix_tree_deref_slot() -> rcu_dereference() without the RCU lock held
triggering the following warning.

[  173.674290] ===================================================
[  173.676016] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[  173.676016] ---------------------------------------------------
[  173.676016] include/linux/radix-tree.h:145 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[  173.676016]
[  173.676016] other info that might help us debug this:
[  173.676016]
[  173.676016]
[  173.676016] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  173.676016] 1 lock held by hugeadm/2899:
[  173.676016]  #0:  (&(&inode->i_data.tree_lock)->rlock){..-.-.}, at: [<c10e3d2b>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0x40/0x1ab
[  173.676016]
[  173.676016] stack backtrace:
[  173.676016] Pid: 2899, comm: hugeadm Not tainted 2.6.37-rc5-autobuild
[  173.676016] Call Trace:
[  173.676016]  [<c128cc01>] ? printk+0x14/0x1b
[  173.676016]  [<c1063502>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x7d/0x86
[  173.676016]  [<c10e3db5>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0xca/0x1ab
[  173.676016]  [<c10e41ad>] migrate_page+0x23/0x39
[  173.676016]  [<c10e491b>] buffer_migrate_page+0x22/0x107
[  173.676016]  [<c10e48f9>] ? buffer_migrate_page+0x0/0x107
[  173.676016]  [<c10e425d>] move_to_new_page+0x9a/0x1ae
[  173.676016]  [<c10e47e6>] migrate_pages+0x1e7/0x2fa

This patch introduces radix_tree_deref_slot_protected() which calls
rcu_dereference_protected().  Users of it must pass in the
mapping->tree_lock that is protecting this dereference.  Holding the tree
lock protects against parallel updaters of the radix tree meaning that
rcu_dereference_protected is allowable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.37.early]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
Nick Piggin
27d20fddc8 radix-tree: fix RCU bug
Salman Qazi describes the following radix-tree bug:

In the following case, we get can get a deadlock:

0.  The radix tree contains two items, one has the index 0.
1.  The reader (in this case find_get_pages) takes the rcu_read_lock.
2.  The reader acquires slot(s) for item(s) including the index 0 item.
3.  The non-zero index item is deleted, and as a consequence the other item is
    moved to the root of the tree. The place where it used to be is queued for
    deletion after the readers finish.
3b. The zero item is deleted, removing it from the direct slot, it remains in
    the rcu-delayed indirect node.
4.  The reader looks at the index 0 slot, and finds that the page has 0 ref
    count
5.  The reader looks at it again, hoping that the item will either be freed or
    the ref count will increase. This never happens, as the slot it is looking
    at will never be updated. Also, this slot can never be reclaimed because
    the reader is holding rcu_read_lock and is in an infinite loop.

The fix is to re-use the same "indirect" pointer case that requires a slot
lookup retry into a general "retry the lookup" bit.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reported-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
a1115570b3 radix-tree: __rcu annotations
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:03 -07:00
Jan Kara
f446daaea9 mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
We try to avoid livelocks of writeback when some steadily creates dirty
pages in a mapping we are writing out.  For memory-cleaning writeback,
using nr_to_write works reasonably well but we cannot really use it for
data integrity writeback.  This patch tries to solve the problem.

The idea is simple: Tag all pages that should be written back with a
special tag (TOWRITE) in the radix tree.  This can be done rather quickly
and thus livelocks should not happen in practice.  Then we start doing the
hard work of locking pages and sending them to disk only for those pages
that have TOWRITE tag set.

Note: Adding new radix tree tag grows radix tree node from 288 to 296
bytes for 32-bit archs and from 552 to 560 bytes for 64-bit archs.
However, the number of slab/slub items per page remains the same (13 and 7
respectively).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
Jan Kara
ebf8aa44be radix-tree: omplement function radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged
Implement function for setting one tag if another tag is set for each item
in given range.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
David Howells
ce82653d6c radix_tree_tag_get() is not as safe as the docs make out [ver #2]
radix_tree_tag_get() is not safe to use concurrently with radix_tree_tag_set()
or radix_tree_tag_clear().  The problem is that the double tag_get() in
radix_tree_tag_get():

		if (!tag_get(node, tag, offset))
			saw_unset_tag = 1;
		if (height == 1) {
			int ret = tag_get(node, tag, offset);

may see the value change due to the action of set/clear.  RCU is no protection
against this as no pointers are being changed, no nodes are being replaced
according to a COW protocol - set/clear alter the node directly.

The documentation in linux/radix-tree.h, however, says that
radix_tree_tag_get() is an exception to the rule that "any function modifying
the tree or tags (...) must exclude other modifications, and exclude any
functions reading the tree".

The problem is that the next statement in radix_tree_tag_get() checks that the
tag doesn't vary over time:

			BUG_ON(ret && saw_unset_tag);

This has been seen happening in FS-Cache:

	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2010-April/msg00013.html

To this end, remove the BUG_ON() from radix_tree_tag_get() and note in various
comments that the value of the tag may change whilst the RCU read lock is held,
and thus that the return value of radix_tree_tag_get() may not be relied upon
unless radix_tree_tag_set/clear() and radix_tree_delete() are excluded from
running concurrently with it.

Reported-by: Romain DEGEZ <romain.degez@smartjog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-09 10:12:03 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
dc566127dd radix-tree: add radix_tree_prev_hole()
The counterpart of radix_tree_next_hole(). To be used by context readahead.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
Nick Piggin
e8c82c2e23 mm lockless pagecache barrier fix
An XFS workload showed up a bug in the lockless pagecache patch. Basically it
would go into an "infinite" loop, although it would sometimes be able to break
out of the loop! The reason is a missing compiler barrier in the "increment
reference count unless it was zero" case of the lockless pagecache protocol in
the gang lookup functions.

This would cause the compiler to use a cached value of struct page pointer to
retry the operation with, rather than reload it. So the page might have been
removed from pagecache and freed (refcount==0) but the lookup would not correctly
notice the page is no longer in pagecache, and keep attempting to increment the
refcount and failing, until the page gets reallocated for something else. This
isn't a data corruption because the condition will be detected if the page has
been reallocated. However it can result in a lockup.

Linus points out that ACCESS_ONCE is also required in that pointer load, even
if it's absence is not causing a bug on our particular build. The most general
way to solve this is just to put an rcu_dereference in radix_tree_deref_slot.

Assembly of find_get_pages,
before:
.L220:
        movq    (%rbx), %rax    #* ivtmp.1162, tmp82
        movq    (%rax), %rdi    #, prephitmp.1149
.L218:
        testb   $1, %dil        #, prephitmp.1149
        jne     .L217   #,
        testq   %rdi, %rdi      # prephitmp.1149
        je      .L203   #,
        cmpq    $-1, %rdi       #, prephitmp.1149
        je      .L217   #,
        movl    8(%rdi), %esi   # <variable>._count.counter, c
        testl   %esi, %esi      # c
        je      .L218   #,

after:
.L212:
        movq    (%rbx), %rax    #* ivtmp.1109, tmp81
        movq    (%rax), %rdi    #, ret
        testb   $1, %dil        #, ret
        jne     .L211   #,
        testq   %rdi, %rdi      # ret
        je      .L197   #,
        cmpq    $-1, %rdi       #, ret
        je      .L211   #,
        movl    8(%rdi), %esi   # <variable>._count.counter, c
        testl   %esi, %esi      # c
        je      .L212   #,

(notice the obvious infinite loop in the first example, if page->count remains 0)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-05 18:31:12 -08:00
Nick Piggin
47feff2c8e radix-tree: add gang_lookup_slot, gang_lookup_slot_tag
Introduce gang_lookup_slot() and gang_lookup_slot_tag() functions, which
are used by lockless pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Tim Pepper
eb8dc5e7b5 radix_tree.h trivial comment correction
There is an unmatched parenthesis in the locking commentary of radix_tree.h
which is trivially fixed by the patch below.

Signed-off-by: Tim Pepper <lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 16:12:47 +02:00
Nick Piggin
c0bc9875b7 radix-tree: use indirect bit
Rather than sign direct radix-tree pointers with a special bit, sign the
indirect one that hangs off the root.  This means that, given a lookup_slot
operation, the invalid result will be differentiated from the valid
(previously, valid results could have the bit either set or clear).

This does not affect slot lookups which occur under lock -- they can never
return an invalid result.  Is needed in future for lockless pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:53 -07:00
Fengguang Wu
6df8ba4f8a radixtree: introduce radix_tree_next_hole()
Introduce radix_tree_next_hole(root, index, max_scan) to scan radix tree for
the first hole.  It will be used in interleaved readahead.

The implementation is dumb and obviously correct.  It can help debug(and
document) the possible smart one in future.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:52 -07:00
Michael Opdenacker
59c51591a0 Fix occurrences of "the the "
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
Nick Piggin
7cf9c2c76c [PATCH] radix-tree: RCU lockless readside
Make radix tree lookups safe to be performed without locks.  Readers are
protected against nodes being deleted by using RCU based freeing.  Readers
are protected against new node insertion by using memory barriers to ensure
the node itself will be properly written before it is visible in the radix
tree.

Each radix tree node keeps a record of their height (above leaf nodes).
This height does not change after insertion -- when the radix tree is
extended, higher nodes are only inserted in the top.  So a lookup can take
the pointer to what is *now* the root node, and traverse down it even if
the tree is concurrently extended and this node becomes a subtree of a new
root.

"Direct" pointers (tree height of 0, where root->rnode points directly to
the data item) are handled by using the low bit of the pointer to signal
whether rnode is a direct pointer or a pointer to a radix tree node.

When a reader wants to traverse the next branch, they will take a copy of
the pointer.  This pointer will be either NULL (and the branch is empty) or
non-NULL (and will point to a valid node).

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: bugfixes, comments, simplifications]
[clameter@sgi.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Al Viro
914e26379d [PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:24 -05:00
Nick Piggin
612d6c19db [PATCH] radix-tree: direct data
The ability to have height 0 radix trees (a direct pointer to the data item
rather than going through a full node->slot) quietly disappeared with
old-2.6-bkcvs commit ffee171812d51652f9ba284302d9e5c5cc14bdfd.  On 64-bit
machines this causes nearly 600 bytes to be used for every <= 4K file in
pagecache.

Re-introduce this feature, root tags stored in spare ->gfp_mask bits.

Simplify radix_tree_delete's complex tag clearing arrangement (which would
become even more complex) by just falling back to tag clearing functions
(the pagecache radix-tree never uses this path anyway, so the icache
savings will mean it's actually a speedup).

On my 4GB G5, this saves 8MB RAM per kernel kernel source+object tree in
pagecache.

Pagecache lookup, insertion, and removal speed for small files will also be
improved.

This makes RCU radix tree harder, but it's worth it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
daff89f324 [PATCH] radix-tree documentation cleanups
Documentation changes to help radix tree users avoid overrunning the tags
array.  RADIX_TREE_TAGS moves to linux/radix-tree.h and is now known as
RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS (Nick Piggin's idea).  Tag parameters are changed to
unsigned, and some comments are updated.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:59 -08:00
Nick Piggin
095975da26 [PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives
Use atomic_inc_not_zero for rcu files instead of special case rcuref.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
Hans Reiser
a43313668f [PATCH] reiser4: add radix_tree_lookup_slot()
Reiser4 uses radix trees to solve a trouble reiser4_readdir has serving nfs
requests.

Unfortunately, radix tree api lacks an operation suitable for modifying
existing entry.  This patch adds radix_tree_lookup_slot which returns pointer
to found item within the tree.  That location can be then updated.

Both Nick and Christoph Lameter have patches which need this as well.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Al Viro
fd4f2df24b [PATCH] gfp_t: lib/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Victor Fusco
00b61f5192 [PATCH] lib/radix-tree: Fix "nocast type" warnings
Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00