Subject: Remove stop_machine during module load v2 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:09:00 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Remove stop_machine during module load v2 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. v2: Revised readers based on Paul's comments. All readers that only rely on disabled preemption need to be changed to list_for_each_rcu(). Done that. The others are ok because they have the modules mutex. Also added a possible missing preempt disable for print_modules(). [cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.] Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/module.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff -r 603f82313f47 kernel/module.c --- a/kernel/module.c Fri Sep 05 14:44:26 2008 +1000 +++ b/kernel/module.c Fri Sep 05 14:45:53 2008 +1000 @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -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); @@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ static bool each_symbol(bool (*fn)(const if (each_symbol_in_section(arr, ARRAY_SIZE(arr), NULL, fn, data)) return true; - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { struct symsearch arr[] = { { mod->syms, mod->syms + mod->num_syms, mod->crcs, NOT_GPL_ONLY, false }, @@ -1414,17 +1415,6 @@ 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 */ @@ -2184,9 +2174,13 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu mod->name); /* 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); + * info during argument parsing. Noone should access us, since + * 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); err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, kp, num_kp, NULL); if (err < 0) @@ -2380,7 +2374,7 @@ const char *module_address_lookup(unsign const char *ret = NULL; preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_size) || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size)) { if (modname) @@ -2403,7 +2397,7 @@ int lookup_module_symbol_name(unsigned l struct module *mod; preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_size) || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size)) { const char *sym; @@ -2427,7 +2421,7 @@ int lookup_module_symbol_attrs(unsigned struct module *mod; preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_size) || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size)) { const char *sym; @@ -2454,7 +2448,7 @@ int module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symn struct module *mod; preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (symnum < mod->num_symtab) { *value = mod->symtab[symnum].st_value; *type = mod->symtab[symnum].st_info; @@ -2497,7 +2491,7 @@ unsigned long module_kallsyms_lookup_nam ret = mod_find_symname(mod, colon+1); *colon = ':'; } else { - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) if ((ret = mod_find_symname(mod, name)) != 0) break; } @@ -2598,7 +2592,7 @@ const struct exception_table_entry *sear struct module *mod; preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (mod->num_exentries == 0) continue; @@ -2624,7 +2618,7 @@ int is_module_address(unsigned long addr preempt_disable(); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) { if (within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size)) { preempt_enable(); return 1; @@ -2645,7 +2639,7 @@ struct module *__module_text_address(uns if (addr < module_addr_min || addr > module_addr_max) return NULL; - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_text_size) || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_text_size)) return mod; @@ -2670,8 +2664,11 @@ void print_modules(void) char buf[8]; printk("Modules linked in:"); - list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list) + /* Most callers should already have preempt disabled, but make sure */ + preempt_disable(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) printk(" %s%s", mod->name, module_flags(mod, buf)); + preempt_enable(); if (last_unloaded_module[0]) printk(" [last unloaded: %s]", last_unloaded_module); printk("\n");