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authorCupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com>2023-04-14 16:12:20 +0100
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-04-20 13:54:24 -0300
commitb630be0922dbaaa50eb174a7740f0d3fb88602da (patch)
treefa0e6bd1ef8115117c6a2090b2dd5248269609fb /nptl
parent0f61cd4b9c5175c128311769df932c8d7694d6b6 (diff)
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Created tunable to force small pages on stack allocation.
Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages can be used for stack allocation. In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to 0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack allocations. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl')
-rw-r--r--nptl/allocatestack.c6
-rw-r--r--nptl/nptl-stack.c1
-rw-r--r--nptl/nptl-stack.h3
-rw-r--r--nptl/pthread_mutex_conf.c8
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/allocatestack.c b/nptl/allocatestack.c
index c7adbccd6f..f9d8cdfd08 100644
--- a/nptl/allocatestack.c
+++ b/nptl/allocatestack.c
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ allocate_stack (const struct pthread_attr *attr, struct pthread **pdp,
if (__glibc_unlikely (mem == MAP_FAILED))
return errno;
+ /* Do madvise in case the tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is
+ set to 0, disabling hugetlb. */
+ if (__glibc_unlikely (__nptl_stack_hugetlb == 0)
+ && __madvise (mem, size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) != 0)
+ return errno;
+
/* SIZE is guaranteed to be greater than zero.
So we can never get a null pointer back from mmap. */
assert (mem != NULL);
diff --git a/nptl/nptl-stack.c b/nptl/nptl-stack.c
index 5eb7773575..e829711cb5 100644
--- a/nptl/nptl-stack.c
+++ b/nptl/nptl-stack.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <pthreadP.h>
size_t __nptl_stack_cache_maxsize = 40 * 1024 * 1024;
+int32_t __nptl_stack_hugetlb = 1;
void
__nptl_stack_list_del (list_t *elem)
diff --git a/nptl/nptl-stack.h b/nptl/nptl-stack.h
index 34f8bbb15e..cf90b27c2b 100644
--- a/nptl/nptl-stack.h
+++ b/nptl/nptl-stack.h
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
/* Maximum size of the cache, in bytes. 40 MiB by default. */
extern size_t __nptl_stack_cache_maxsize attribute_hidden;
+/* Should allow stacks to use hugetlb. (1) is default. */
+extern int32_t __nptl_stack_hugetlb;
+
/* Check whether the stack is still used or not. */
static inline bool
__nptl_stack_in_use (struct pthread *pd)
diff --git a/nptl/pthread_mutex_conf.c b/nptl/pthread_mutex_conf.c
index 9133384d47..6517899718 100644
--- a/nptl/pthread_mutex_conf.c
+++ b/nptl/pthread_mutex_conf.c
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_stack_cache_size) (tunable_val_t *valp)
__nptl_stack_cache_maxsize = valp->numval;
}
+static void
+TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_stack_hugetlb) (tunable_val_t *valp)
+{
+ __nptl_stack_hugetlb = (int32_t) valp->numval;
+}
+
void
__pthread_tunables_init (void)
{
@@ -51,4 +57,6 @@ __pthread_tunables_init (void)
TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_mutex_spin_count));
TUNABLE_GET (stack_cache_size, size_t,
TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_stack_cache_size));
+ TUNABLE_GET (stack_hugetlb, int32_t,
+ TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_stack_hugetlb));
}