[PATCH v1 1/3] net: Introduce sk_use_task_frag in struct sock.
From: Benjamin Coddington
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 08:36:54 EST
From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sockets that can be used while recursing into memory reclaim, like
those used by network block devices and file systems, mustn't use
current->task_frag: if the current process is already using it, then
the inner memory reclaim call would corrupt the task_frag structure.
To avoid this, sk_page_frag() uses ->sk_allocation to detect sockets
that mustn't use current->task_frag, assuming that those used during
memory reclaim had their allocation constraints reflected in
->sk_allocation.
This unfortunately doesn't cover all cases: in an attempt to remove all
usage of GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO, sunrpc stopped setting these flags in
->sk_allocation, and used memalloc_nofs critical sections instead.
This breaks the sk_page_frag() heuristic since the allocation
constraints are now stored in current->flags, which sk_page_frag()
can't read without risking triggering a cache miss and slowing down
TCP's fast path.
This patch creates a new field in struct sock, named sk_use_task_frag,
which sockets with memory reclaim constraints can set to false if they
can't safely use current->task_frag. In such cases, sk_page_frag() now
always returns the socket's page_frag (->sk_frag). The first user is
sunrpc, which needs to avoid using current->task_frag but can keep
->sk_allocation set to GFP_KERNEL otherwise.
Eventually, it might be possible to simplify sk_page_frag() by only
testing ->sk_use_task_frag and avoid relying on the ->sk_allocation
heuristic entirely (assuming other sockets will set ->sk_use_task_frag
according to their constraints in the future).
The new ->sk_use_task_frag field is placed in a hole in struct sock and
belongs to a cache line shared with ->sk_shutdown. Therefore it should
be hot and shouldn't have negative performance impacts on TCP's fast
path (sk_shutdown is tested just before the while() loop in
tcp_sendmsg_locked()).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/b4d8cb09c913d3e34f853736f3f5628abfd7f4b6.1656699567.git.gnault@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/sock.h | 11 +++++++++--
net/core/sock.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index d08cfe190a78..ffba9e95470d 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ struct sk_filter;
* @sk_stamp: time stamp of last packet received
* @sk_stamp_seq: lock for accessing sk_stamp on 32 bit architectures only
* @sk_tsflags: SO_TIMESTAMPING flags
+ * @sk_use_task_frag: allow sk_page_frag() to use current->task_frag.
+ Sockets that can be used under memory reclaim should
+ set this to false.
* @sk_bind_phc: SO_TIMESTAMPING bind PHC index of PTP virtual clock
* for timestamping
* @sk_tskey: counter to disambiguate concurrent tstamp requests
@@ -504,6 +507,7 @@ struct sock {
#endif
u16 sk_tsflags;
u8 sk_shutdown;
+ bool sk_use_task_frag;
atomic_t sk_tskey;
atomic_t sk_zckey;
@@ -2536,14 +2540,17 @@ static inline void sk_stream_moderate_sndbuf(struct sock *sk)
* socket operations and end up recursing into sk_page_frag()
* while it's already in use: explicitly avoid task page_frag
* usage if the caller is potentially doing any of them.
- * This assumes that page fault handlers use the GFP_NOFS flags.
+ * This assumes that page fault handlers use the GFP_NOFS flags or
+ * explicitly disable sk_use_task_frag.
*
* Return: a per task page_frag if context allows that,
* otherwise a per socket one.
*/
static inline struct page_frag *sk_page_frag(struct sock *sk)
{
- if ((sk->sk_allocation & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_MEMALLOC | __GFP_FS)) ==
+ if (sk->sk_use_task_frag &&
+ (sk->sk_allocation & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_MEMALLOC |
+ __GFP_FS)) ==
(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_FS))
return ¤t->task_frag;
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 788c1372663c..1ab781be9fbe 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -3314,6 +3314,7 @@ void sock_init_data(struct socket *sock, struct sock *sk)
sk->sk_rcvbuf = READ_ONCE(sysctl_rmem_default);
sk->sk_sndbuf = READ_ONCE(sysctl_wmem_default);
sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
+ sk->sk_use_task_frag = true;
sk_set_socket(sk, sock);
sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED);
--
2.31.1