tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU

In recent tests with IRQ on/off tracepoints, a large performance
overhead ~10% is noticed when running hackbench. This is root caused to
calls to rcu_irq_enter_irqson and rcu_irq_exit_irqson from the
tracepoint code. Following a long discussion on the list [1] about this,
we concluded that srcu is a better alternative for use during rcu idle.
Although it does involve extra barriers, its lighter than the sched-rcu
version which has to do additional RCU calls to notify RCU idle about
entry into RCU sections.

In this patch, we change the underlying implementation of the
trace_*_rcuidle API to use SRCU. This has shown to improve performance
alot for the high frequency irq enable/disable tracepoints.

Test: Tested idle and preempt/irq tracepoints.

Here are some performance numbers:

With a run of the following 30 times on a single core x86 Qemu instance
with 1GB memory:
hackbench -g 4 -f 2 -l 3000

Completion times in seconds. CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

No patches (without this series)
Mean: 3.048
Median: 3.025
Std Dev: 0.064

With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with RCU implementation:
Mean: 3.451   (-11.66 %)
Median: 3.447 (-12.22%)
Std Dev: 0.049

With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with SRCU implementation (this series):
Mean: 3.020   (I would consider the improvement against the "without
	       this series" case as just noise).
Median: 3.013
Std Dev: 0.033

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10344297/

[remove rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace as its the equivalent of
preempt_disable_notrace and is unnecessary to call in tracepoint code]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-3-joel@joelfernandes.org

Cleaned-up-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ Simplified WARN_ON_ONCE() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 6dc6356c3327..955148d91b74 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
 extern struct tracepoint * const __start___tracepoints_ptrs[];
 extern struct tracepoint * const __stop___tracepoints_ptrs[];
 
+DEFINE_SRCU(tracepoint_srcu);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_srcu);
+
 /* Set to 1 to enable tracepoint debug output */
 static const int tracepoint_debug;
 
@@ -67,16 +70,27 @@ static inline void *allocate_probes(int count)
 	return p == NULL ? NULL : p->probes;
 }
 
-static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head)
+static void srcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	kfree(container_of(head, struct tp_probes, rcu));
 }
 
+static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	call_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu, head, srcu_free_old_probes);
+}
+
 static inline void release_probes(struct tracepoint_func *old)
 {
 	if (old) {
 		struct tp_probes *tp_probes = container_of(old,
 			struct tp_probes, probes[0]);
+		/*
+		 * Tracepoint probes are protected by both sched RCU and SRCU,
+		 * by calling the SRCU callback in the sched RCU callback we
+		 * cover both cases. So let us chain the SRCU and sched RCU
+		 * callbacks to wait for both grace periods.
+		 */
 		call_rcu_sched(&tp_probes->rcu, rcu_free_old_probes);
 	}
 }