[v5,0/2] uprobes: Improve scalability by reducing the contention on siglock

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Liao Chang Jan. 24, 2025, 9:38 a.m. UTC

The profiling result of BPF selftest on ARM64 platform reveals the
significant contention on the current->sighand->siglock is the
scalability bottleneck. The reason is also very straightforward that all
producer threads of benchmark have to contend the spinlock mentioned to
resume the TIF_SIGPENDING bit in thread_info that might be removed in
uprobe_deny_signal().

The contention on current->sighand->siglock is unnecessary, this series
remove them thoroughly. I've use the script developed by Andrii in [1]
to run benchmark. The CPU used was Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA nodes,
64 cores@2.4GHz running the kernel on next tree + the optimization in
[2] for get_xol_insn_slot().

before-opt
----------
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.907 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.907M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 2 cpus):    1.676 ± 0.008M/s  (  0.838M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 4 cpus):    3.210 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.802M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 8 cpus):    4.457 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.557M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (16 cpus):    3.724 ± 0.011M/s  (  0.233M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (32 cpus):    2.761 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.086M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (64 cpus):    1.293 ± 0.015M/s  (  0.020M/s/cpu)

uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.883 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.883M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 2 cpus):    1.642 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.821M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 4 cpus):    3.086 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.771M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 8 cpus):    3.390 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.424M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (16 cpus):    2.652 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.166M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (32 cpus):    2.713 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.085M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (64 cpus):    1.313 ± 0.009M/s  (  0.021M/s/cpu)

uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    1.774 ± 0.000M/s  (  1.774M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 2 cpus):    3.350 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.675M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 4 cpus):    6.604 ± 0.000M/s  (  1.651M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 8 cpus):    6.706 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.838M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (16 cpus):    5.231 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.327M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (32 cpus):    5.743 ± 0.003M/s  (  0.179M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (64 cpus):    4.726 ± 0.016M/s  (  0.074M/s/cpu)

after-opt
---------
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.985 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.985M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 2 cpus):    1.773 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.887M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 4 cpus):    3.304 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.826M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      ( 8 cpus):    5.328 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.666M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (16 cpus):    6.475 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.405M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (32 cpus):    4.831 ± 0.082M/s  (  0.151M/s/cpu)
uprobe-nop      (64 cpus):    2.564 ± 0.053M/s  (  0.040M/s/cpu)

uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.964 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.964M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 2 cpus):    1.766 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.883M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 4 cpus):    3.290 ± 0.009M/s  (  0.823M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 8 cpus):    4.670 ± 0.002M/s  (  0.584M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (16 cpus):    5.197 ± 0.004M/s  (  0.325M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (32 cpus):    5.068 ± 0.161M/s  (  0.158M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     (64 cpus):    2.605 ± 0.026M/s  (  0.041M/s/cpu)

uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    1.833 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.833M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 2 cpus):    3.384 ± 0.003M/s  (  1.692M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 4 cpus):    6.677 ± 0.004M/s  (  1.669M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 8 cpus):    6.854 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.857M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (16 cpus):    6.508 ± 0.006M/s  (  0.407M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (32 cpus):    5.793 ± 0.009M/s  (  0.181M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      (64 cpus):    4.743 ± 0.016M/s  (  0.074M/s/cpu)

Above benchmark results demonstrates a obivious improvement in the
scalability of trig-uprobe-nop and trig-uprobe-push, the peak throughput
of which are from 4.5M/s to 6.4M/s and 3.3M/s to 5.1M/s individually.

v5->v4:
Nothing new, just rebase to next-20250124.

v4->v3:
1. Rebase v3 [3] to the lateset tip/perf/core.
2. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[e-mail]>
3. Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[e-mail]>

v3->v2:
Renaming the flag in [2/2], s/deny_signal/signal_denied/g.

v2->v1:
Oleg pointed out the _DENY_SIGNAL will be replaced by _ACK upon the
completion of singlestep which leads to handle_singlestep() has no
chance to restore the removed TIF_SIGPENDING [3] and some case in
question. So this revision proposes to use a flag in uprobe_task to
track the denied TIF_SIGPENDING instead of new UPROBE_SSTEP state.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/ 


Liao Chang (2):
  uprobes: Remove redundant spinlock in uprobe_deny_signal()
  uprobes: Remove the spinlock within handle_singlestep()

 include/linux/uprobes.h |  1 +
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Peter Zijlstra Jan. 27, 2025, 11:28 a.m. UTC | #1

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:38:24AM +0000, Liao Chang wrote:
> Liao Chang (2):
>   uprobes: Remove redundant spinlock in uprobe_deny_signal()
>   uprobes: Remove the spinlock within handle_singlestep()
> 
>  include/linux/uprobes.h |  1 +
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c | 10 +++++-----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Thanks, I've picked up the patches but will not merge them until post
-rc1.