Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman <romger@amazon.com> reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 807d7b9a1860..2592356e3215 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ register struct thread_info *__current_thread_info __asm__("$8");
 #define TIF_SIGPENDING		2	/* signal pending */
 #define TIF_NEED_RESCHED	3	/* rescheduling necessary */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	4	/* syscall audit active */
+#define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	5	/* signal notifications exist */
 #define TIF_DIE_IF_KERNEL	9	/* dik recursion lock */
 #define TIF_MEMDIE		13	/* is terminating due to OOM killer */
 #define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG	14	/* idle is polling for TIF_NEED_RESCHED */
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ register struct thread_info *__current_thread_info __asm__("$8");
 #define _TIF_NEED_RESCHED	(1<<TIF_NEED_RESCHED)
 #define _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	(1<<TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME)
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	(1<<TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT)
+#define _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	(1<<TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
 #define _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG	(1<<TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG)
 
 /* Work to do on interrupt/exception return.  */