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trace/pid_list: optimize pid_list->lock contention
authorYongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:02:52 +0000 (08:02 +0800)
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:15:54 +0000 (15:15 -0500)
commit97e047f44d347a4f4033c0b62f77a15a9deaf750
tree5e41ab10a0ea6043831fbb53e1df17df4bb37acb
parente29aa918a928408c3e64b0d1025e4eb9f6fc549e
trace/pid_list: optimize pid_list->lock contention

When the system has many cores and task switching is frequent,
setting set_ftrace_pid can cause frequent pid_list->lock contention
and high system sys usage.

For example, in a 288-core VM environment, we observed 267 CPUs
experiencing contention on pid_list->lock, with stack traces showing:

 #4 [ffffa6226fb4bc70] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath at ffffffff99cd4b7e
 #5 [ffffa6226fb4bc90] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave at ffffffff99cd3e36
 #6 [ffffa6226fb4bca0] trace_pid_list_is_set at ffffffff99267554
 #7 [ffffa6226fb4bcc0] trace_ignore_this_task at ffffffff9925c288
 #8 [ffffa6226fb4bcd8] ftrace_filter_pid_sched_switch_probe at ffffffff99246efe
 #9 [ffffa6226fb4bcf0] __schedule at ffffffff99ccd161

Replaces the existing spinlock with a seqlock to allow concurrent readers,
while maintaining write exclusivity.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113000252.1058144-1-leonylgao@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/pid_list.c
kernel/trace/pid_list.h