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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
The MM CID management has two fundamental requirements:
1) It has to guarantee that at no given point in time the same CID is
used by concurrent tasks in userspace.
2) The CID space must not exceed the number of possible CPUs in a
system. While most allocators (glibc, tcmalloc, jemalloc) do not
care about that, there seems to be at least some LTTng library
depending on it.
The CID space compaction itself is not a functional correctness
requirement, it is only a useful optimization mechanism to reduce the
memory foot print in unused user space pools.
The optimal CID space is:
min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus_allowed);
Where @nr_tasks is the number of actual user space threads associated to
the mm and @nr_cpus_allowed is the superset of all task affinities. It is
growth only as it would be insane to take a racy snapshot of all task
affinities when the affinity of one task changes just do redo it 2
milliseconds later when the next task changes it's affinity.
That means that as long as the number of tasks is lower or equal than the
number of CPUs allowed, each task owns a CID. If the number of tasks
exceeds the number of CPUs allowed it switches to per CPU mode, where the
CPUs own the CIDs and the tasks borrow them as long as they are scheduled
in.
For transition periods CIDs can go beyond the optimal space as long as they
don't go beyond the number of possible CPUs.
The current upstream implementation adds overhead into task migration to
keep the CID with the task. It also has to do the CID space consolidation
work from a task work in the exit to user space path. As that work is
assigned to a random task related to a MM this can inflict unwanted exit
latencies.
Implement the context switch parts of a strict ownership mechanism to
address this.
This removes most of the work from the task which schedules out. Only
during transitioning from per CPU to per task ownership it is required to
drop the CID when leaving the CPU to prevent CID space exhaustion. Other
than that scheduling out is just a single check and branch.
The task which schedules in has to check whether:
1) The ownership mode changed
2) The CID is within the optimal CID space
In stable situations this results in zero work. The only short disruption
is when ownership mode changes or when the associated CID is not in the
optimal CID space. The latter only happens when tasks exit and therefore
the optimal CID space shrinks.
That mechanism is strictly optimized for the common case where no change
happens. The only case where it actually causes a temporary one time spike
is on mode changes when and only when a lot of tasks related to a MM
schedule exactly at the same time and have eventually to compete on
allocating a CID from the bitmap.
In the sysbench test case which triggered the spinlock contention in the
initial CID code, __schedule() drops significantly in perf top on a 128
Core (256 threads) machine when running sysbench with 255 threads, which
fits into the task mode limit of 256 together with the parent thread:
Upstream rseq/perf branch +CID rework
0.42% 0.37% 0.32% [k] __schedule
Increasing the number of threads to 256, which puts the test process into
per CPU mode looks about the same.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172550.023984859@linutronix.de
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sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
The MM CID management has two fundamental requirements:
1) It has to guarantee that at no given point in time the same CID is
used by concurrent tasks in userspace.
2) The CID space must not exceed the number of possible CPUs in a
system. While most allocators (glibc, tcmalloc, jemalloc) do not
care about that, there seems to be at least some LTTng library
depending on it.
The CID space compaction itself is not a functional correctness
requirement, it is only a useful optimization mechanism to reduce the
memory foot print in unused user space pools.
The optimal CID space is:
min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus_allowed);
Where @nr_tasks is the number of actual user space threads associated to
the mm and @nr_cpus_allowed is the superset of all task affinities. It is
growth only as it would be insane to take a racy snapshot of all task
affinities when the affinity of one task changes just do redo it 2
milliseconds later when the next task changes it's affinity.
That means that as long as the number of tasks is lower or equal than the
number of CPUs allowed, each task owns a CID. If the number of tasks
exceeds the number of CPUs allowed it switches to per CPU mode, where the
CPUs own the CIDs and the tasks borrow them as long as they are scheduled
in.
For transition periods CIDs can go beyond the optimal space as long as they
don't go beyond the number of possible CPUs.
The current upstream implementation adds overhead into task migration to
keep the CID with the task. It also has to do the CID space consolidation
work from a task work in the exit to user space path. As that work is
assigned to a random task related to a MM this can inflict unwanted exit
latencies.
Implement the context switch parts of a strict ownership mechanism to
address this.
This removes most of the work from the task which schedules out. Only
during transitioning from per CPU to per task ownership it is required to
drop the CID when leaving the CPU to prevent CID space exhaustion. Other
than that scheduling out is just a single check and branch.
The task which schedules in has to check whether:
1) The ownership mode changed
2) The CID is within the optimal CID space
In stable situations this results in zero work. The only short disruption
is when ownership mode changes or when the associated CID is not in the
optimal CID space. The latter only happens when tasks exit and therefore
the optimal CID space shrinks.
That mechanism is strictly optimized for the common case where no change
happens. The only case where it actually causes a temporary one time spike
is on mode changes when and only when a lot of tasks related to a MM
schedule exactly at the same time and have eventually to compete on
allocating a CID from the bitmap.
In the sysbench test case which triggered the spinlock contention in the
initial CID code, __schedule() drops significantly in perf top on a 128
Core (256 threads) machine when running sysbench with 255 threads, which
fits into the task mode limit of 256 together with the parent thread:
Upstream rseq/perf branch +CID rework
0.42% 0.37% 0.32% [k] __schedule
Increasing the number of threads to 256, which puts the test process into
per CPU mode looks about the same.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172550.023984859@linutronix.de
2025-11-19 18:27:14 +01:00
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rseq: slice ext: Ensure rseq feature size differs from original rseq size
Before rseq became extensible, its original size was 32 bytes even
though the active rseq area was only 20 bytes. This had the following
impact in terms of userspace ecosystem evolution:
* The GNU libc between 2.35 and 2.39 expose a __rseq_size symbol set
to 32, even though the size of the active rseq area is really 20.
* The GNU libc 2.40 changes this __rseq_size to 20, thus making it
express the active rseq area.
* Starting from glibc 2.41, __rseq_size corresponds to the
AT_RSEQ_FEATURE_SIZE from getauxval(3).
This means that users of __rseq_size can always expect it to
correspond to the active rseq area, except for the value 32, for
which the active rseq area is 20 bytes.
Exposing a 32 bytes feature size would make life needlessly painful
for userspace. Therefore, add a reserved field at the end of the
rseq area to bump the feature size to 33 bytes. This reserved field
is expected to be replaced with whatever field will come next,
expecting that this field will be larger than 1 byte.
The effect of this change is to increase the size from 32 to 64 bytes
before we actually have fields using that memory.
Clarify the allocation size and alignment requirements in the struct
rseq uapi comment.
Change the value returned by getauxval(AT_RSEQ_ALIGN) to return the
value of the active rseq area size rounded up to next power of 2, which
guarantees that the rseq structure will always be aligned on the nearest
power of two large enough to contain it, even as it grows. Change the
alignment check in the rseq registration accordingly.
This will minimize the amount of ABI corner-cases we need to document
and require userspace to play games with. The rule stays simple when
__rseq_size != 32:
#define rseq_field_available(field) (__rseq_size >= offsetofend(struct rseq_abi, field))
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220200642.1317826-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour
The recent RSEQ optimization work broke the TCMalloc abuse of the RSEQ ABI
as it not longer unconditionally updates the CPU, node, mm_cid fields,
which are documented as read only for user space. Due to the observed
behavior of the kernel it was possible for TCMalloc to overwrite the
cpu_id_start field for their own purposes and rely on the kernel to update
it unconditionally after each context switch and before signal delivery.
The RSEQ ABI only guarantees that these fields are updated when the data
changes, i.e. the task is migrated or the MMCID of the task changes due to
switching from or to per CPU ownership mode.
The optimization work eliminated the unconditional updates and reduced them
to the documented ABI guarantees, which results in a massive performance
win for syscall, scheduling heavy work loads, which in turn breaks the
TCMalloc expectations.
There have been several options discussed to restore the TCMalloc
functionality while preserving the optimization benefits. They all end up
in a series of hard to maintain workarounds, which in the worst case
introduce overhead for everyone, e.g. in the scheduler.
The requirements of TCMalloc and the optimization work are diametral and
the required work arounds are a maintainence burden. They end up as fragile
constructs, which are blocking further optimization work and are pretty
much guaranteed to cause more subtle issues down the road.
The optimization work heavily depends on the generic entry code, which is
not used by all architectures yet. So the rework preserved the original
mechanism moslty unmodified to keep the support for architectures, which
handle rseq in their own exit to user space loop. That code is currently
optimized out by the compiler on architectures which use the generic entry
code.
This allows to revert back to the original behaviour by replacing the
compile time constant conditions with a runtime condition where required,
which disables the optimization and the dependend time slice extension
feature until the run-time condition can be enabled in the RSEQ
registration code on a per task basis again.
The following changes are required to restore the original behavior, which
makes TCMalloc work again:
1) Replace the compile time constant conditionals with runtime
conditionals where appropriate to prevent the compiler from optimizing
the legacy mode out
2) Enforce unconditional update of IDs on context switch for the
non-optimized v1 mode
3) Enforce update of IDs in the pre signal delivery path for the
non-optimized v1 mode
4) Enforce update of IDs in the membarrier(RSEQ) IPI for the
non-optimized v1 mode
5) Make time slice and future extensions depend on optimized v2 mode
This brings back the full performance problems, but preserves the v2
optimization code and for generic entry code using architectures also the
TIF_RSEQ optimization which avoids a full evaluation of the exit to user
mode loop in many cases.
Fixes: 566d8015f7ee ("rseq: Avoid CPU/MM CID updates when no event pending")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn <mathias@mongodb.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.517051752%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2026-04-25 00:47:54 +02:00
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sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
The MM CID management has two fundamental requirements:
1) It has to guarantee that at no given point in time the same CID is
used by concurrent tasks in userspace.
2) The CID space must not exceed the number of possible CPUs in a
system. While most allocators (glibc, tcmalloc, jemalloc) do not
care about that, there seems to be at least some LTTng library
depending on it.
The CID space compaction itself is not a functional correctness
requirement, it is only a useful optimization mechanism to reduce the
memory foot print in unused user space pools.
The optimal CID space is:
min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus_allowed);
Where @nr_tasks is the number of actual user space threads associated to
the mm and @nr_cpus_allowed is the superset of all task affinities. It is
growth only as it would be insane to take a racy snapshot of all task
affinities when the affinity of one task changes just do redo it 2
milliseconds later when the next task changes it's affinity.
That means that as long as the number of tasks is lower or equal than the
number of CPUs allowed, each task owns a CID. If the number of tasks
exceeds the number of CPUs allowed it switches to per CPU mode, where the
CPUs own the CIDs and the tasks borrow them as long as they are scheduled
in.
For transition periods CIDs can go beyond the optimal space as long as they
don't go beyond the number of possible CPUs.
The current upstream implementation adds overhead into task migration to
keep the CID with the task. It also has to do the CID space consolidation
work from a task work in the exit to user space path. As that work is
assigned to a random task related to a MM this can inflict unwanted exit
latencies.
Implement the context switch parts of a strict ownership mechanism to
address this.
This removes most of the work from the task which schedules out. Only
during transitioning from per CPU to per task ownership it is required to
drop the CID when leaving the CPU to prevent CID space exhaustion. Other
than that scheduling out is just a single check and branch.
The task which schedules in has to check whether:
1) The ownership mode changed
2) The CID is within the optimal CID space
In stable situations this results in zero work. The only short disruption
is when ownership mode changes or when the associated CID is not in the
optimal CID space. The latter only happens when tasks exit and therefore
the optimal CID space shrinks.
That mechanism is strictly optimized for the common case where no change
happens. The only case where it actually causes a temporary one time spike
is on mode changes when and only when a lot of tasks related to a MM
schedule exactly at the same time and have eventually to compete on
allocating a CID from the bitmap.
In the sysbench test case which triggered the spinlock contention in the
initial CID code, __schedule() drops significantly in perf top on a 128
Core (256 threads) machine when running sysbench with 255 threads, which
fits into the task mode limit of 256 together with the parent thread:
Upstream rseq/perf branch +CID rework
0.42% 0.37% 0.32% [k] __schedule
Increasing the number of threads to 256, which puts the test process into
per CPU mode looks about the same.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172550.023984859@linutronix.de
2025-11-19 18:27:14 +01:00
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