From 82a02aec3a8b3c2ac925d0b71ea4c35aa5d6463b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 03:27:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] async: use explicit memory barriers
RH-Author: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20210729134448.4995-3-drjones@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 101937
O-Subject: [RHEL-8.5.0 qemu-kvm PATCH v2 2/2] async: use explicit memory barriers
Bugzilla: 1969848
RH-Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When using C11 atomics, non-seqcst reads and writes do not participate
in the total order of seqcst operations. In util/async.c and util/aio-posix.c,
in particular, the pattern that we use
write ctx->notify_me write bh->scheduled
read bh->scheduled read ctx->notify_me
if !bh->scheduled, sleep if ctx->notify_me, notify
needs to use seqcst operations for both the write and the read. In
general this is something that we do not want, because there can be
many sources that are polled in addition to bottom halves. The
alternative is to place a seqcst memory barrier between the write
and the read. This also comes with a disadvantage, in that the
memory barrier is implicit on strongly-ordered architectures and
it wastes a few dozen clock cycles.
Fortunately, ctx->notify_me is never written concurrently by two
threads, so we can assert that and relax the writes to ctx->notify_me.
The resulting solution works and performs well on both aarch64 and x86.
Note that the atomic_set/atomic_read combination is not an atomic
read-modify-write, and therefore it is even weaker than C11 ATOMIC_RELAXED;
on x86, ATOMIC_RELAXED compiles to a locked operation.
Analyzed-by: Ying Fang <fangying1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ying Fang <fangying1@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20200407140746.8041-6-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5710a3e09f9b85801e5ce70797a4a511e5fc9e2c)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
---
util/aio-posix.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
util/aio-win32.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
util/async.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/util/aio-posix.c b/util/aio-posix.c
index abc396d030..8cfb25650d 100644
--- a/util/aio-posix.c
+++ b/util/aio-posix.c
@@ -624,6 +624,11 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
int64_t timeout;
int64_t start = 0;
+ /*
+ * There cannot be two concurrent aio_poll calls for the same AioContext (or
+ * an aio_poll concurrent with a GSource prepare/check/dispatch callback).
+ * We rely on this below to avoid slow locked accesses to ctx->notify_me.
+ */
assert(in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx));
/* aio_notify can avoid the expensive event_notifier_set if
@@ -634,7 +639,13 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
* so disable the optimization now.
*/
if (blocking) {
- atomic_add(&ctx->notify_me, 2);
+ atomic_set(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) + 2);
+ /*
+ * Write ctx->notify_me before computing the timeout
+ * (reading bottom half flags, etc.). Pairs with
+ * smp_mb in aio_notify().
+ */
+ smp_mb();
}
qemu_lockcnt_inc(&ctx->list_lock);
@@ -679,7 +690,8 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
}
if (blocking) {
- atomic_sub(&ctx->notify_me, 2);
+ /* Finish the poll before clearing the flag. */
+ atomic_store_release(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) - 2);
aio_notify_accept(ctx);
}
diff --git a/util/aio-win32.c b/util/aio-win32.c
index a23b9c364d..729d533faf 100644
--- a/util/aio-win32.c
+++ b/util/aio-win32.c
@@ -321,6 +321,12 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
int count;
int timeout;
+ /*
+ * There cannot be two concurrent aio_poll calls for the same AioContext (or
+ * an aio_poll concurrent with a GSource prepare/check/dispatch callback).
+ * We rely on this below to avoid slow locked accesses to ctx->notify_me.
+ */
+ assert(in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx));
progress = false;
/* aio_notify can avoid the expensive event_notifier_set if
@@ -331,7 +337,13 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
* so disable the optimization now.
*/
if (blocking) {
- atomic_add(&ctx->notify_me, 2);
+ atomic_set(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) + 2);
+ /*
+ * Write ctx->notify_me before computing the timeout
+ * (reading bottom half flags, etc.). Pairs with
+ * smp_mb in aio_notify().
+ */
+ smp_mb();
}
qemu_lockcnt_inc(&ctx->list_lock);
@@ -364,8 +376,7 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
ret = WaitForMultipleObjects(count, events, FALSE, timeout);
if (blocking) {
assert(first);
- assert(in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx));
- atomic_sub(&ctx->notify_me, 2);
+ atomic_store_release(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) - 2);
aio_notify_accept(ctx);
}
diff --git a/util/async.c b/util/async.c
index b1fa5319e5..c65c58bbc9 100644
--- a/util/async.c
+++ b/util/async.c
@@ -220,7 +220,14 @@ aio_ctx_prepare(GSource *source, gint *timeout)
{
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
- atomic_or(&ctx->notify_me, 1);
+ atomic_set(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) | 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Write ctx->notify_me before computing the timeout
+ * (reading bottom half flags, etc.). Pairs with
+ * smp_mb in aio_notify().
+ */
+ smp_mb();
/* We assume there is no timeout already supplied */
*timeout = qemu_timeout_ns_to_ms(aio_compute_timeout(ctx));
@@ -238,7 +245,8 @@ aio_ctx_check(GSource *source)
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
QEMUBH *bh;
- atomic_and(&ctx->notify_me, ~1);
+ /* Finish computing the timeout before clearing the flag. */
+ atomic_store_release(&ctx->notify_me, atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me) & ~1);
aio_notify_accept(ctx);
for (bh = ctx->first_bh; bh; bh = bh->next) {
@@ -343,10 +351,10 @@ LinuxAioState *aio_get_linux_aio(AioContext *ctx)
void aio_notify(AioContext *ctx)
{
/* Write e.g. bh->scheduled before reading ctx->notify_me. Pairs
- * with atomic_or in aio_ctx_prepare or atomic_add in aio_poll.
+ * with smp_mb in aio_ctx_prepare or aio_poll.
*/
smp_mb();
- if (ctx->notify_me) {
+ if (atomic_read(&ctx->notify_me)) {
event_notifier_set(&ctx->notifier);
atomic_mb_set(&ctx->notified, true);
}
--
2.27.0