The alloc->mutex is a highly contended lock that causes performance
issues on Android devices. When a low-priority task is given this lock
and it sleeps, it becomes difficult for the task to wake up and complete
its work. This delays other tasks that are also waiting on the mutex.
The problem gets worse when there is memory pressure in the system,
because this increases the contention on the alloc->mutex while the
shrinker reclaims binder pages.
Switching to a spinlock helps to keep the waiters running and avoids the
overhead of waking up tasks. This significantly improves the transaction
latency when the problematic scenario occurs.
The performance impact of this patchset was measured by stress-testing
the binder alloc contention. In this test, several clients of different
priorities send thousands of transactions of different sizes to a single
server. In parallel, pages get reclaimed using the shinker's debugfs.
The test was run on a Pixel 8, Pixel 6 and qemu machine. The results
were similar on all three devices:
after:
| sched | prio | average | max | min |
|--------+------+---------+-----------+---------|
| fifo | 99 | 0.135ms | 1.197ms | 0.022ms |
| fifo | 01 | 0.136ms | 5.232ms | 0.018ms |
| other | -20 | 0.180ms | 7.403ms | 0.019ms |
| other | 19 | 0.241ms | 58.094ms | 0.018ms |
before:
| sched | prio | average | max | min |
|--------+------+---------+-----------+---------|
| fifo | 99 | 0.350ms | 248.730ms | 0.020ms |
| fifo | 01 | 0.357ms | 248.817ms | 0.024ms |
| other | -20 | 0.399ms | 249.906ms | 0.020ms |
| other | 19 | 0.477ms | 297.756ms | 0.022ms |
The key metrics above are the average and max latencies (wall time).
These improvements should roughly translate to p95-p99 latencies on real
workloads. The response time is up to 200x faster in these scenarios and
there is no penalty in the regular path.
Note that it is only possible to convert this lock after a series of
changes made by previous patches. These mainly include refactoring the
sections that might_sleep() and changing the locking order with the
mmap_lock amongst others.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-29-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that the page allocation step is done separately we should rename
the binder_free_page_range() and binder_allocate_page_range() functions
to provide a more accurate description of what they do. Lets borrow the
freelist concept used in other parts of the kernel for this.
No functional change here.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-23-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Binder attributes the buffer allocation to the current->tgid everytime.
There is no need to pass this as a parameter so drop it.
Also add a few touchups to follow the coding guidelines. No functional
changes are introduced in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-13-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The vma addresses in binder are currently stored as void __user *. This
requires casting back and forth between the mm/ api which uses unsigned
long. Since we also do internal arithmetic on these addresses we end up
having to cast them _again_ to an integer type.
Lets stop all the unnecessary casting which kills code readability and
store the virtual addresses as the native unsigned long from mm/. Note
that this approach is preferred over uintptr_t as Linus explains in [1].
Opportunistically add a few cosmetic touchups.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wj2OHy-5e+srG1fy+ZU00TmZ1NFp6kFLbVLMXHe7A1d-g@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-10-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The kernel coding style does not require 'extern' in function prototypes
in .h files, so remove them from drivers/android/binder_alloc.h as they
are not needed.
No functional changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-9-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In binder_init(), the destruction of binder_alloc_shrinker_init() is not
performed in the wrong path, which will cause memory leaks. So this commit
introduces binder_alloc_shrinker_exit() and calls it in the wrong path to
fix that.
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Fixes: f2517eb76f ("android: binder: Add global lru shrinker to binder")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230625154937.64316-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit a43cfc87ca.
This patch fixed an issue reported by syzkaller in [1]. However, this
turned out to be only a band-aid in binder. The root cause, as bisected
by syzkaller, was fixed by commit 5789151e48 ("mm/mmap: undo ->mmap()
when mas_preallocate() fails"). We no longer need the patch for binder.
Reverting such patch allows us to have a lockless access to alloc->vma
in specific cases where the mmap_lock is not required. This approach
avoids the contention that caused a performance regression.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004a0dbe05e1d749e0@google.com
[cmllamas: resolved conflicts with rework of alloc->mm and removal of
binder_alloc_set_vma() also fixed comment section]
Fixes: a43cfc87ca ("android: binder: stop saving a pointer to the VMA")
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502201220.1756319-2-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Update the kernel-doc section of struct binder_alloc to fix the
following warnings reported by ./scripts/kernel-doc:
warning: Function parameter or member 'mutex' not described in 'binder_alloc'
warning: Function parameter or member 'vma_addr' not described in 'binder_alloc'
No functional changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220906135948.3048225-4-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Rename ->vma_vm_mm to ->mm to reflect the fact that we no longer cache
this reference from vma->vm_mm but from current->mm instead.
No functional changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220906135948.3048225-2-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The ->buffer_free member was introduced in the first revision of the
driver under staging but it appears like it was never actually used
according to git's history. Remove it from binder_alloc.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829201254.1814484-6-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Correct the misspelling of 'invariant' in kernel-doc section.
No functional changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829201254.1814484-3-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Do not record a pointer to a VMA outside of the mmap_lock for later use.
This is unsafe and there are a number of failure paths *after* the
recorded VMA pointer may be freed during setup. There is no callback to
the driver to clear the saved pointer from generic mm code. Furthermore,
the VMA pointer may become stale if any number of VMA operations end up
freeing the VMA so saving it was fragile to being with.
Instead, change the binder_alloc struct to record the start address of the
VMA and use vma_lookup() to get the vma when needed. Add lockdep
mmap_lock checks on updates to the vma pointer to ensure the lock is held
and depend on that lock for synchronization of readers and writers - which
was already the case anyways, so the smp_wmb()/smp_rmb() was not
necessary.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/android/binder_alloc_selftest.c]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220621140212.vpkio64idahetbyf@revolver
Fixes: da1b9564e8 ("android: binder: fix the race mmap and alloc_new_buf_locked")
Reported-by: syzbot+58b51ac2b04e388ab7b0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When async binder buffer got exhausted, some normal oneway transactions
will also be discarded and may cause system or application failures. By
that time, the binder debug information we dump may not be relevant to
the root cause. And this issue is difficult to debug if without the
backtrace of the thread sending spam.
This change will send BR_ONEWAY_SPAM_SUSPECT to userspace when oneway
spamming is detected, request to dump current backtrace. Oneway spamming
will be reported only once when exceeding the threshold (target process
dips below 80% of its oneway space, and current process is responsible for
either more than 50 transactions, or more than 50% of the oneway space).
And the detection will restart when the async buffer has returned to a
healthy state.
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hang Lu <hangl@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617961246-4502-3-git-send-email-hangl@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a per-transaction flag to indicate that the buffer
must be cleared when the transaction is complete to
prevent copies of sensitive data from being preserved
in memory.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201120233743.3617529-1-tkjos@google.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The most common cause of the binder transaction buffer filling up is a
client rapidly firing oneway transactions into a process, before it has
a chance to handle them. Yet the root cause of this is often hard to
debug, because either the system or the app will stop, and by that time
binder debug information we dump in bugreports is no longer relevant.
This change warns as soon as a process dips below 80% of its oneway
space (less than 100kB available in the configuration), when any one
process is responsible for either more than 50 transactions, or more
than 50% of the oneway space.
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821122544.1277051-1-maco@android.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The buffer copy functions assumed the caller would ensure
correct alignment and that the memory to be copied was
completely within the binder buffer. There have been
a few cases discovered by syzkallar where a malformed
transaction created by a user could violated the
assumptions and resulted in a BUG_ON.
The fix is to remove the BUG_ON and always return the
error to be handled appropriately by the caller.
Acked-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+3ae18325f96190606754@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: bde4a19fc0 ("binder: use userspace pointer as base of buffer space")
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this software is licensed under the terms of the gnu general public
license version 2 as published by the free software foundation and
may be copied distributed and modified under those terms this
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without any warranty without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu
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GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 285 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141900.642774971@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that alloc->buffer points to the userspace vm_area
rename buffer->data to buffer->user_data and rename
local pointers that hold user addresses. Also use the
"__user" tag to annotate all user pointers so sparse
can flag cases where user pointer vaues are copied to
kernel pointers. Refactor code to use offsets instead
of user pointers.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove user_buffer_offset since there is no kernel
buffer pointer anymore.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Avoid vm_area when copying to or from binder buffers.
Instead, new copy functions are added that copy from
kernel space to binder buffer space. These use
kmap_atomic() and kunmap_atomic() to create temporary
mappings and then memcpy() is used to copy within
that page.
Also, kmap_atomic() / kunmap_atomic() use the appropriate
cache flushing to support VIVT cache architectures.
Allow binder to build if CPU_CACHE_VIVT is defined.
Several uses of the new functions are added here. More
to follow in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The binder driver uses a vm_area to map the per-process
binder buffer space. For 32-bit android devices, this is
now taking too much vmalloc space. This patch removes
the use of vm_area when copying the transaction data
from the sender to the buffer space. Instead of using
copy_from_user() for multi-page copies, it now uses
binder_alloc_copy_user_to_buffer() which uses kmap()
and kunmap() to map each page, and uses copy_from_user()
for copying to that page.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Malicious code can attempt to free buffers using the BC_FREE_BUFFER
ioctl to binder. There are protections against a user freeing a buffer
while in use by the kernel, however there was a window where
BC_FREE_BUFFER could be used to free a recently allocated buffer that
was not completely initialized. This resulted in a use-after-free
detected by KASAN with a malicious test program.
This window is closed by setting the buffer's allow_user_free attribute
to 0 when the buffer is allocated or when the user has previously freed
it instead of waiting for the caller to set it. The problem was that
when the struct buffer was recycled, allow_user_free was stale and set
to 1 allowing a free to go through.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Both list_lru_init() and register_shrinker() might return an error.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Show the high watermark of the index into the alloc->pages
array, to facilitate sizing the buffer on a per-process
basis.
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use binder_alloc struct's mm_struct rather than getting
a reference to the mm struct through get_task_mm to
avoid a potential deadlock between lru lock, task lock and
dentry lock, since a thread can be holding the task lock
and the dentry lock while trying to acquire the lru lock.
Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add the number of active, lru, and free pages for
each binder process in binder stats
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Hold on to the pages allocated and mapped for transaction
buffers until the system is under memory pressure. When
that happens, use linux shrinker to free pages. Without
using shrinker, patch "android: binder: Move buffer out
of area shared with user space" will cause a significant
slow down for small transactions that fit into the first
page because free list buffer header used to be inlined
with buffer data.
In addition to prevent the performance regression for
small transactions, this patch improves the performance
for transactions that take up more than one page.
Modify alloc selftest to work with the shrinker change.
Test: Run memory intensive applications (Chrome and Camera)
to trigger shrinker callbacks. Binder frees memory as expected.
Test: Run binderThroughputTest with high memory pressure
option enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Binder driver allocates buffer meta data in a region that is mapped
in user space. These meta data contain pointers in the kernel.
This patch allocates buffer meta data on the kernel heap that is
not mapped in user space, and uses a pointer to refer to the data mapped.
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
binder_alloc_selftest tests that alloc_new_buf handles page allocation and
deallocation properly when allocate and free buffers. The test allocates 5
buffers of various sizes to cover all possible page alignment cases, and
frees the buffers using a list of exhaustive freeing order.
Test: boot the device with ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_SELFTEST config option
enabled. Allocator selftest passes.
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Adds protection against malicious user code freeing
the same buffer at the same time which could cause
a crash. Cannot happen under normal use.
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Move the binder allocator functionality to its own file
Continuation of splitting the binder allocator from the binder
driver. Split binder_alloc functions from normal binder functions.
Add kernel doc comments to functions declared extern in
binder_alloc.h
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
