sched/wake_q: Reduce reference counting for special users

Some users, specifically futexes and rwsems, required fixes
that allowed the callers to be safe when wakeups occur before
they are expected by wake_up_q(). Such scenarios also play
games and rely on reference counting, and until now were
pivoting on wake_q doing it. With the wake_q_add() call being
moved down, this can no longer be the case. As such we end up
with a a double task refcounting overhead; and these callers
care enough about this (being rather core-ish).

This patch introduces a wake_q_add_safe() call that serves
for callers that have already done refcounting and therefore the
task is 'safe' from wake_q point of view (int that it requires
reference throughout the entire queue/>wakeup cycle). In the one
case it has internal reference counting, in the other case it
consumes the reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@baidu.com>
Cc: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218195352.7orq3upiwfdbrdne@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3c8b4dba3d2d..64ceaa5158c5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -396,19 +396,7 @@ static bool set_nr_if_polling(struct task_struct *p)
 #endif
 #endif
 
-/**
- * wake_q_add() - queue a wakeup for 'later' waking.
- * @head: the wake_q_head to add @task to
- * @task: the task to queue for 'later' wakeup
- *
- * Queue a task for later wakeup, most likely by the wake_up_q() call in the
- * same context, _HOWEVER_ this is not guaranteed, the wakeup can come
- * instantly.
- *
- * This function must be used as-if it were wake_up_process(); IOW the task
- * must be ready to be woken at this location.
- */
-void wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
+static bool __wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct wake_q_node *node = &task->wake_q;
 
@@ -422,15 +410,55 @@ void wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
 	 */
 	smp_mb__before_atomic();
 	if (unlikely(cmpxchg_relaxed(&node->next, NULL, WAKE_Q_TAIL)))
-		return;
-
-	get_task_struct(task);
+		return false;
 
 	/*
 	 * The head is context local, there can be no concurrency.
 	 */
 	*head->lastp = node;
 	head->lastp = &node->next;
+	return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * wake_q_add() - queue a wakeup for 'later' waking.
+ * @head: the wake_q_head to add @task to
+ * @task: the task to queue for 'later' wakeup
+ *
+ * Queue a task for later wakeup, most likely by the wake_up_q() call in the
+ * same context, _HOWEVER_ this is not guaranteed, the wakeup can come
+ * instantly.
+ *
+ * This function must be used as-if it were wake_up_process(); IOW the task
+ * must be ready to be woken at this location.
+ */
+void wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	if (__wake_q_add(head, task))
+		get_task_struct(task);
+}
+
+/**
+ * wake_q_add_safe() - safely queue a wakeup for 'later' waking.
+ * @head: the wake_q_head to add @task to
+ * @task: the task to queue for 'later' wakeup
+ *
+ * Queue a task for later wakeup, most likely by the wake_up_q() call in the
+ * same context, _HOWEVER_ this is not guaranteed, the wakeup can come
+ * instantly.
+ *
+ * This function must be used as-if it were wake_up_process(); IOW the task
+ * must be ready to be woken at this location.
+ *
+ * This function is essentially a task-safe equivalent to wake_q_add(). Callers
+ * that already hold reference to @task can call the 'safe' version and trust
+ * wake_q to do the right thing depending whether or not the @task is already
+ * queued for wakeup.
+ */
+void wake_q_add_safe(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	if (!__wake_q_add(head, task))
+		put_task_struct(task);
 }
 
 void wake_up_q(struct wake_q_head *head)