[GIT,PULL] vfs kcore

Pull-request

[e-mail]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore

Message

Christian Brauner Jan. 18, 2025, 12:56 p.m. UTC

Hey Linus,

/* Summary */

The performance of /proc/kcore reads has been showing up as a bottleneck
for the drgn debugger. drgn scripts often spend ~25% of their time in the
kernel reading from /proc/kcore.

A lot of this overhead comes from silly inefficiencies. This pull
request contains fixes for the low-hanging fruit. The fixes are all
fairly small and straightforward. The result is a 25% improvement in
read latency in micro-benchmarks (from ~235 nanoseconds to ~175) and a
15% improvement in execution time for real-world drgn scripts:

- Make /proc/kcore entry permanent.

- Avoid walking the list on every read.

- Use percpu_rw_semaphore for kclist_lock.

- Make Omar Sandoval the official maintainer for /proc/kcore.

/* Testing */

gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-6)
Debian clang version 16.0.6 (27+b1)

No build failures or warnings were observed.

/* Conflicts */

Merge conflicts with mainline
=============================

No known conflicts.

Merge conflicts with other trees
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No known conflicts.

The following changes since commit 40384c840ea1944d7c5a392e8975ed088ecf0b37:

  Linux 6.13-rc1 (2024-12-01 14:28:56 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  [e-mail]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore

for you to fetch changes up to 4972226d0dc48ddedf071355ca664fbf34b509c8:

  Merge patch series "proc/kcore: performance optimizations" (2024-12-02 11:21:07 +0100)

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore

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Christian Brauner (1):
      Merge patch series "proc/kcore: performance optimizations"

Omar Sandoval (4):
      proc/kcore: mark proc entry as permanent
      proc/kcore: don't walk list on every read
      proc/kcore: use percpu_rw_semaphore for kclist_lock
      MAINTAINERS: add me as /proc/kcore maintainer

 MAINTAINERS     |  7 +++++
 fs/proc/kcore.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)