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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2026-03-20 03:45:36 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>2026-03-25 20:11:30 +0100
commitb0473dcd4b1d7e2e44947e7ac1820c73a268821a (patch)
treefc6c548b9d7c7dece1efd2740538405ef34a7cd1 /kernel
parentec39780d6a9e05e7e427008603b40efef515b775 (diff)
smp: Improve smp_call_function_single() CSD-lock diagnostics
Both smp_call_function() and smp_call_function_single() use per-CPU call_single_data_t variable to hold the infamous CSD lock. However, while smp_call_function() acquires the destination CPU's CSD lock, smp_call_function_single() instead uses the source CPU's CSD lock. (These are two separate sets of CSD locks, cfd_data and csd_data, respectively.) This otherwise inexplicable pair of choices is explained by their respective queueing properties. If smp_call_function() where to use the sending CPU's CSD lock, that would serialize the destination CPUs' IPI handlers and result in long smp_call_function() latencies, especially on systems with large numbers of CPUs. For its part, if smp_call_function_single() were to use the (single) destination CPU's CSD lock, this would similarly serialize in the case where many CPUs are sending IPIs to a single "victim" CPU. Plus it would result in higher levels of memory contention. Except that if there is no NMI-based stack tracing on a weakly ordered system where remote unsynchronized stack traces are especially unreliable, the improved debugging beats the improved queueing. This improved queueing only matters if a bunch of CPUs are calling smp_call_function_single() concurrently for a single "victim" CPU, which is not the common case. Therefore, make smp_call_function_single() use the destination CPU's csd_data instance in kernels built with CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG=y where csdlock_debug_enabled is also set. Otherwise, continue to use the source CPU's csd_data. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/25c2eb97-77c8-49a5-80ac-efe78dea272c@paulmck-laptop
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smp.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index bdbf145737ba..0fc4ff28ba79 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -377,6 +377,20 @@ static __always_inline void csd_unlock(call_single_data_t *csd)
static DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(call_single_data_t, csd_data);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG
+static call_single_data_t *get_single_csd_data(int cpu)
+{
+ if (static_branch_unlikely(&csdlock_debug_enabled))
+ return per_cpu_ptr(&csd_data, cpu);
+ return this_cpu_ptr(&csd_data);
+}
+#else
+static call_single_data_t *get_single_csd_data(int cpu)
+{
+ return this_cpu_ptr(&csd_data);
+}
+#endif
+
void __smp_call_single_queue(int cpu, struct llist_node *node)
{
/*
@@ -671,7 +685,7 @@ int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, smp_call_func_t func, void *info,
csd = &csd_stack;
if (!wait) {
- csd = this_cpu_ptr(&csd_data);
+ csd = get_single_csd_data(cpu);
csd_lock(csd);
}