Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:17:34 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load |
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Remove stop_machine during module load
module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert the module into the global module lists. Especially on larger systems this can be quite expensive.
It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers like kallsyms.
I don't think stop_machine() is actually needed to insert something into a list though. There are no concurrent writers because the module mutex is taken. And the RCU list functions know how to insert a node into a list with the right memory ordering so that concurrent readers don't go off into the wood.
So remove the stop_machine for the module list insert and just do a list_add_rcu() instead.
Module removal will still do a stop_machine of course, it needs that for other reasons.
[cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.]
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Index: linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/kernel/module.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc.orig/kernel/module.c +++ linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/kernel/module.c @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/unwind.h> +#include <linux/rculist.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/cacheflush.h> #include <linux/license.h> @@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ #define INIT_OFFSET_MASK (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG-1)) /* List of modules, protected by module_mutex or preempt_disable - * (add/delete uses stop_machine). */ + * (delete uses stop_machine/add uses RCU list operations). */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex); static LIST_HEAD(modules); @@ -1391,17 +1392,6 @@ static void mod_kobject_remove(struct mo } /* - * link the module with the whole machine is stopped with interrupts off - * - this defends against kallsyms not taking locks - */ -static int __link_module(void *_mod) -{ - struct module *mod = _mod; - list_add(&mod->list, &modules); - return 0; -} - -/* * unlink the module with the whole machine is stopped with interrupts off * - this defends against kallsyms not taking locks */ @@ -2196,8 +2186,12 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _ /* Now sew it into the lists so we can get lockdep and oops * info during argument parsing. Noone should access us, since - * strong_try_module_get() will fail. */ - stop_machine(__link_module, mod, NULL); + * strong_try_module_get() will fail. + * lockdep/oops can run asynchronous, so use the RCU list insertion + * function to insert in a way safe to concurrent readers. + * The mutex protects against concurrent writers. + */ + list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules); /* Size of section 0 is 0, so this works well if no params */ err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args,
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