Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman <romger@amazon.com> reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/entry-common.h b/include/linux/entry-common.h
index 7c581a4c3797..ca86a00abe86 100644
--- a/include/linux/entry-common.h
+++ b/include/linux/entry-common.h
@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
 # define _TIF_UPROBE			(0)
 #endif
 
-#ifndef _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
-# define _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL		(0)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * SYSCALL_WORK flags handled in syscall_enter_from_user_mode()
  */