Recently, we noticed an issue where a process went into direct reclaim while holding the kernfs rw semaphore for sysfs in write (exclusive) mode. This caused processes who were doing DMA-BUF exports and releases to go into uninterruptible sleep since they needed to acquire the same semaphore for the DMA-BUF sysfs entry creation/deletion. In order to avoid blocking DMA-BUF export for an indeterminate amount of time while another process is holding the sysfs rw semaphore in exclusive mode, this patch moves the per-buffer sysfs file creation to the default work queue. Note that this can lead to a short-term inaccuracy in the dmabuf sysfs statistics, but this is a tradeoff to prevent the hot path from being blocked. A work_struct is added to dma_buf to achieve this, but as it is unioned with the kobject in the sysfs_entry, dma_buf does not increase in size.
Fixes: bdb8d06dfefd ("dmabuf: Add the capability to expose DMA-BUF stats in sysfs") Originally-by: Hridya Valsaraju hridya@google.com Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier tjmercier@google.com
--- See the originally submitted patch by Hridya Valsaraju here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/4/1066
v2 changes: - Defer only sysfs creation instead of creation and teardown per Christian König
- Use a work queue instead of a kthread for deferred work per Christian König --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++------- include/linux/dma-buf.h | 14 ++++++- 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c index 2bba0babcb62..67b0a298291c 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-sysfs-stats.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/printk.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/sysfs.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include "dma-buf-sysfs-stats.h"
@@ -168,10 +169,46 @@ void dma_buf_uninit_sysfs_statistics(void) kset_unregister(dma_buf_stats_kset); }
+static void sysfs_add_workfn(struct work_struct *work) +{ + struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry *sysfs_entry = + container_of(work, struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry, sysfs_add_work); + struct dma_buf *dmabuf = sysfs_entry->dmabuf; + + /* + * A dmabuf is ref-counted via its file member. If this handler holds the only + * reference to the dmabuf, there is no need for sysfs kobject creation. This is an + * optimization and a race; when the reference count drops to 1 immediately after + * this check it is not harmful as the sysfs entry will still get cleaned up in + * dma_buf_stats_teardown, which won't get called until the final dmabuf reference + * is released, and that can't happen until the end of this function. + */ + if (file_count(dmabuf->file) > 1) { + /* + * kobject_init_and_add expects kobject to be zero-filled, but we have populated it + * (the sysfs_add_work union member) to trigger this work function. + */ + memset(&dmabuf->sysfs_entry->kobj, 0, sizeof(dmabuf->sysfs_entry->kobj)); + dmabuf->sysfs_entry->kobj.kset = dma_buf_per_buffer_stats_kset; + if (kobject_init_and_add(&dmabuf->sysfs_entry->kobj, &dma_buf_ktype, NULL, + "%lu", file_inode(dmabuf->file)->i_ino)) { + kobject_put(&dmabuf->sysfs_entry->kobj); + dmabuf->sysfs_entry = NULL; + } + } else { + /* + * Free the sysfs_entry and reset the pointer so dma_buf_stats_teardown doesn't + * attempt to operate on it. + */ + kfree(dmabuf->sysfs_entry); + dmabuf->sysfs_entry = NULL; + } + dma_buf_put(dmabuf); +} + int dma_buf_stats_setup(struct dma_buf *dmabuf) { struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry *sysfs_entry; - int ret;
if (!dmabuf || !dmabuf->file) return -EINVAL; @@ -181,25 +218,16 @@ int dma_buf_stats_setup(struct dma_buf *dmabuf) return -EINVAL; }
- sysfs_entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry), GFP_KERNEL); + sysfs_entry = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sysfs_entry) return -ENOMEM;
- sysfs_entry->kobj.kset = dma_buf_per_buffer_stats_kset; sysfs_entry->dmabuf = dmabuf; - dmabuf->sysfs_entry = sysfs_entry;
- /* create the directory for buffer stats */ - ret = kobject_init_and_add(&sysfs_entry->kobj, &dma_buf_ktype, NULL, - "%lu", file_inode(dmabuf->file)->i_ino); - if (ret) - goto err_sysfs_dmabuf; + INIT_WORK(&dmabuf->sysfs_entry->sysfs_add_work, sysfs_add_workfn); + get_dma_buf(dmabuf); /* This reference will be dropped in sysfs_add_workfn. */ + schedule_work(&dmabuf->sysfs_entry->sysfs_add_work);
return 0; - -err_sysfs_dmabuf: - kobject_put(&sysfs_entry->kobj); - dmabuf->sysfs_entry = NULL; - return ret; } diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h index 2097760e8e95..0200caa3c515 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/dma-fence.h> #include <linux/wait.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
struct device; struct dma_buf; @@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ struct dma_buf { */ const char *name;
- /** @name_lock: Spinlock to protect name acces for read access. */ + /** @name_lock: Spinlock to protect name access for read access. */ spinlock_t name_lock;
/** @@ -441,6 +442,7 @@ struct dma_buf {
__poll_t active; } cb_in, cb_out; + #ifdef CONFIG_DMABUF_SYSFS_STATS /** * @sysfs_entry: @@ -449,7 +451,15 @@ struct dma_buf { * `DMA-BUF statistics`_ for the uapi this enables. */ struct dma_buf_sysfs_entry { - struct kobject kobj; + union { + struct kobject kobj; + + /** @sysfs_add_work: + * + * For deferred sysfs kobject creation using a workqueue. + */ + struct work_struct sysfs_add_work; + }; struct dma_buf *dmabuf; } *sysfs_entry; #endif