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-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/file.c17
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h4
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/mount.c19
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernfs.h57
4 files changed, 83 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index 3b354caad6b5..bb933221b4ba 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -18,19 +18,6 @@
#include "kernfs-internal.h"
-/*
- * There's one kernfs_open_file for each open file and one kernfs_open_node
- * for each kernfs_node with one or more open files.
- *
- * kernfs_node->attr.open points to kernfs_open_node. attr.open is
- * RCU protected.
- *
- * filp->private_data points to seq_file whose ->private points to
- * kernfs_open_file. kernfs_open_files are chained at
- * kernfs_open_node->files, which is protected by kernfs_open_file_mutex.
- */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(kernfs_open_file_mutex);
-
struct kernfs_open_node {
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
atomic_t event;
@@ -51,7 +38,9 @@ static LLIST_HEAD(kernfs_notify_list);
static inline struct mutex *kernfs_open_file_mutex_ptr(struct kernfs_node *kn)
{
- return &kernfs_open_file_mutex;
+ int idx = hash_ptr(kn, NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS);
+
+ return &kernfs_locks->open_file_mutex[idx];
}
static inline struct mutex *kernfs_open_file_mutex_lock(struct kernfs_node *kn)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
index eeaa779b929c..3ae214d02d44 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
+++ b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
@@ -164,4 +164,8 @@ void kernfs_drain_open_files(struct kernfs_node *kn);
*/
extern const struct inode_operations kernfs_symlink_iops;
+/*
+ * kernfs locks
+ */
+extern struct kernfs_global_locks *kernfs_locks;
#endif /* __KERNFS_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
index cfa79715fc1a..d0859f72d2d6 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include "kernfs-internal.h"
struct kmem_cache *kernfs_node_cache, *kernfs_iattrs_cache;
+struct kernfs_global_locks *kernfs_locks;
static int kernfs_sop_show_options(struct seq_file *sf, struct dentry *dentry)
{
@@ -387,6 +388,22 @@ void kernfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
kfree(info);
}
+static void __init kernfs_mutex_init(void)
+{
+ int count;
+
+ for (count = 0; count < NR_KERNFS_LOCKS; count++)
+ mutex_init(&kernfs_locks->open_file_mutex[count]);
+}
+
+static void __init kernfs_lock_init(void)
+{
+ kernfs_locks = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kernfs_global_locks), GFP_KERNEL);
+ WARN_ON(!kernfs_locks);
+
+ kernfs_mutex_init();
+}
+
void __init kernfs_init(void)
{
kernfs_node_cache = kmem_cache_create("kernfs_node_cache",
@@ -397,4 +414,6 @@ void __init kernfs_init(void)
kernfs_iattrs_cache = kmem_cache_create("kernfs_iattrs_cache",
sizeof(struct kernfs_iattrs),
0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+
+ kernfs_lock_init();
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 2dd9c8df0f4f..13e703f615f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/uidgid.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/cache.h>
struct file;
struct dentry;
@@ -34,6 +35,62 @@ struct kernfs_fs_context;
struct kernfs_open_node;
struct kernfs_iattrs;
+/*
+ * NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS determines size (NR_KERNFS_LOCKS) of hash
+ * table of locks.
+ * Having a small hash table would impact scalability, since
+ * more and more kernfs_node objects will end up using same lock
+ * and having a very large hash table would waste memory.
+ *
+ * At the moment size of hash table of locks is being set based on
+ * the number of CPUs as follows:
+ *
+ * NR_CPU NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS NR_KERNFS_LOCKS
+ * 1 1 2
+ * 2-3 2 4
+ * 4-7 4 16
+ * 8-15 6 64
+ * 16-31 8 256
+ * 32 and more 10 1024
+ *
+ * The above relation between NR_CPU and number of locks is based
+ * on some internal experimentation which involved booting qemu
+ * with different values of smp, performing some sysfs operations
+ * on all CPUs and observing how increase in number of locks impacts
+ * completion time of these sysfs operations on each CPU.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+#define NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS (2 * (ilog2(NR_CPUS < 32 ? NR_CPUS : 32)))
+#else
+#define NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS 1
+#endif
+
+#define NR_KERNFS_LOCKS (1 << NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS)
+
+/*
+ * There's one kernfs_open_file for each open file and one kernfs_open_node
+ * for each kernfs_node with one or more open files.
+ *
+ * filp->private_data points to seq_file whose ->private points to
+ * kernfs_open_file.
+ *
+ * kernfs_open_files are chained at kernfs_open_node->files, which is
+ * protected by kernfs_global_locks.open_file_mutex[i].
+ *
+ * To reduce possible contention in sysfs access, arising due to single
+ * locks, use an array of locks (e.g. open_file_mutex) and use kernfs_node
+ * object address as hash keys to get the index of these locks.
+ *
+ * Hashed mutexes are safe to use here because operations using these don't
+ * rely on global exclusion.
+ *
+ * In future we intend to replace other global locks with hashed ones as well.
+ * kernfs_global_locks acts as a holder for all such hash tables.
+ */
+struct kernfs_global_locks {
+ struct mutex open_file_mutex[NR_KERNFS_LOCKS];
+};
+
enum kernfs_node_type {
KERNFS_DIR = 0x0001,
KERNFS_FILE = 0x0002,