root/drivers/md/dm-vdo/indexer/sparse-cache.c
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
 * Copyright 2023 Red Hat
 */

#include "sparse-cache.h"

#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/dm-bufio.h>

#include "logger.h"
#include "memory-alloc.h"
#include "permassert.h"

#include "chapter-index.h"
#include "config.h"
#include "index.h"

/*
 * Since the cache is small, it is implemented as a simple array of cache entries. Searching for a
 * specific virtual chapter is implemented as a linear search. The cache replacement policy is
 * least-recently-used (LRU). Again, the small size of the cache allows the LRU order to be
 * maintained by shifting entries in an array list.
 *
 * Changing the contents of the cache requires the coordinated participation of all zone threads
 * via the careful use of barrier messages sent to all the index zones by the triage queue worker
 * thread. The critical invariant for coordination is that the cache membership must not change
 * between updates, so that all calls to uds_sparse_cache_contains() from the zone threads must all
 * receive the same results for every virtual chapter number. To ensure that critical invariant,
 * state changes such as "that virtual chapter is no longer in the volume" and "skip searching that
 * chapter because it has had too many cache misses" are represented separately from the cache
 * membership information (the virtual chapter number).
 *
 * As a result of this invariant, we have the guarantee that every zone thread will call
 * uds_update_sparse_cache() once and exactly once to request a chapter that is not in the cache,
 * and the serialization of the barrier requests from the triage queue ensures they will all
 * request the same chapter number. This means the only synchronization we need can be provided by
 * a pair of thread barriers used only in the uds_update_sparse_cache() call, providing a critical
 * section where a single zone thread can drive the cache update while all the other zone threads
 * are known to be blocked, waiting in the second barrier. Outside that critical section, all the
 * zone threads implicitly hold a shared lock. Inside it, the thread for zone zero holds an
 * exclusive lock. No other threads may access or modify the cache entries.
 *
 * Chapter statistics must only be modified by a single thread, which is also the zone zero thread.
 * All fields that might be frequently updated by that thread are kept in separate cache-aligned
 * structures so they will not cause cache contention via "false sharing" with the fields that are
 * frequently accessed by all of the zone threads.
 *
 * The LRU order is managed independently by each zone thread, and each zone uses its own list for
 * searching and cache membership queries. The zone zero list is used to decide which chapter to
 * evict when the cache is updated, and its search list is copied to the other threads at that
 * time.
 *
 * The virtual chapter number field of the cache entry is the single field indicating whether a
 * chapter is a member of the cache or not. The value NO_CHAPTER is used to represent a null or
 * undefined chapter number. When present in the virtual chapter number field of a
 * cached_chapter_index, it indicates that the cache entry is dead, and all the other fields of
 * that entry (other than immutable pointers to cache memory) are undefined and irrelevant. Any
 * cache entry that is not marked as dead is fully defined and a member of the cache, and
 * uds_sparse_cache_contains() will always return true for any virtual chapter number that appears
 * in any of the cache entries.
 *
 * A chapter index that is a member of the cache may be excluded from searches between calls to
 * uds_update_sparse_cache() in two different ways. First, when a chapter falls off the end of the
 * volume, its virtual chapter number will be less that the oldest virtual chapter number. Since
 * that chapter is no longer part of the volume, there's no point in continuing to search that
 * chapter index. Once invalidated, that virtual chapter will still be considered a member of the
 * cache, but it will no longer be searched for matching names.
 *
 * The second mechanism is a heuristic based on keeping track of the number of consecutive search
 * misses in a given chapter index. Once that count exceeds a threshold, the skip_search flag will
 * be set to true, causing the chapter to be skipped when searching the entire cache, but still
 * allowing it to be found when searching for a hook in that specific chapter. Finding a hook will
 * clear the skip_search flag, once again allowing the non-hook searches to use that cache entry.
 * Again, regardless of the state of the skip_search flag, the virtual chapter must still
 * considered to be a member of the cache for uds_sparse_cache_contains().
 */

#define SKIP_SEARCH_THRESHOLD 20000
#define ZONE_ZERO 0

/*
 * These counters are essentially fields of the struct cached_chapter_index, but are segregated
 * into this structure because they are frequently modified. They are grouped and aligned to keep
 * them on different cache lines from the chapter fields that are accessed far more often than they
 * are updated.
 */
struct __aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES) cached_index_counters {
        u64 consecutive_misses;
};

struct __aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES) cached_chapter_index {
        /*
         * The virtual chapter number of the cached chapter index. NO_CHAPTER means this cache
         * entry is unused. This field must only be modified in the critical section in
         * uds_update_sparse_cache().
         */
        u64 virtual_chapter;

        u32 index_pages_count;

        /*
         * These pointers are immutable during the life of the cache. The contents of the arrays
         * change when the cache entry is replaced.
         */
        struct delta_index_page *index_pages;
        struct dm_buffer **page_buffers;

        /*
         * If set, skip the chapter when searching the entire cache. This flag is just a
         * performance optimization. This flag is mutable between cache updates, but it rarely
         * changes and is frequently accessed, so it groups with the immutable fields.
         */
        bool skip_search;

        /*
         * The cache-aligned counters change often and are placed at the end of the structure to
         * prevent false sharing with the more stable fields above.
         */
        struct cached_index_counters counters;
};

/*
 * A search_list represents an ordering of the sparse chapter index cache entry array, from most
 * recently accessed to least recently accessed, which is the order in which the indexes should be
 * searched and the reverse order in which they should be evicted from the cache.
 *
 * Cache entries that are dead or empty are kept at the end of the list, avoiding the need to even
 * iterate over them to search, and ensuring that dead entries are replaced before any live entries
 * are evicted.
 *
 * The search list is instantiated for each zone thread, avoiding any need for synchronization. The
 * structure is allocated on a cache boundary to avoid false sharing of memory cache lines between
 * zone threads.
 */
struct search_list {
        u8 capacity;
        u8 first_dead_entry;
        struct cached_chapter_index *entries[];
};

struct threads_barrier {
        /* Lock for this barrier object */
        struct semaphore lock;
        /* Semaphore for threads waiting at this barrier */
        struct semaphore wait;
        /* Number of threads which have arrived */
        int arrived;
        /* Total number of threads using this barrier */
        int thread_count;
};

struct sparse_cache {
        const struct index_geometry *geometry;
        unsigned int capacity;
        unsigned int zone_count;

        unsigned int skip_threshold;
        struct search_list *search_lists[MAX_ZONES];
        struct cached_chapter_index **scratch_entries;

        struct threads_barrier begin_update_barrier;
        struct threads_barrier end_update_barrier;

        struct cached_chapter_index chapters[];
};

static void initialize_threads_barrier(struct threads_barrier *barrier,
                                       unsigned int thread_count)
{
        sema_init(&barrier->lock, 1);
        barrier->arrived = 0;
        barrier->thread_count = thread_count;
        sema_init(&barrier->wait, 0);
}

static inline void __down(struct semaphore *semaphore)
{
        /*
         * Do not use down(semaphore). Instead use down_interruptible so that
         * we do not get 120 second stall messages in kern.log.
         */
        while (down_interruptible(semaphore) != 0) {
                /*
                 * If we're called from a user-mode process (e.g., "dmsetup
                 * remove") while waiting for an operation that may take a
                 * while (e.g., UDS index save), and a signal is sent (SIGINT,
                 * SIGUSR2), then down_interruptible will not block. If that
                 * happens, sleep briefly to avoid keeping the CPU locked up in
                 * this loop. We could just call cond_resched, but then we'd
                 * still keep consuming CPU time slices and swamp other threads
                 * trying to do computational work.
                 */
                fsleep(1000);
        }
}

static void enter_threads_barrier(struct threads_barrier *barrier)
{
        __down(&barrier->lock);
        if (++barrier->arrived == barrier->thread_count) {
                /* last thread */
                int i;

                for (i = 1; i < barrier->thread_count; i++)
                        up(&barrier->wait);

                barrier->arrived = 0;
                up(&barrier->lock);
        } else {
                up(&barrier->lock);
                __down(&barrier->wait);
        }
}

static int __must_check initialize_cached_chapter_index(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter,
                                                        const struct index_geometry *geometry)
{
        int result;

        chapter->virtual_chapter = NO_CHAPTER;
        chapter->index_pages_count = geometry->index_pages_per_chapter;

        result = vdo_allocate(chapter->index_pages_count, struct delta_index_page,
                              __func__, &chapter->index_pages);
        if (result != VDO_SUCCESS)
                return result;

        return vdo_allocate(chapter->index_pages_count, struct dm_buffer *,
                            "sparse index volume pages", &chapter->page_buffers);
}

static int __must_check make_search_list(struct sparse_cache *cache,
                                         struct search_list **list_ptr)
{
        struct search_list *list;
        unsigned int bytes;
        u8 i;
        int result;

        bytes = (sizeof(struct search_list) +
                 (cache->capacity * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index *)));
        result = vdo_allocate_cache_aligned(bytes, "search list", &list);
        if (result != VDO_SUCCESS)
                return result;

        list->capacity = cache->capacity;
        list->first_dead_entry = 0;

        for (i = 0; i < list->capacity; i++)
                list->entries[i] = &cache->chapters[i];

        *list_ptr = list;
        return UDS_SUCCESS;
}

int uds_make_sparse_cache(const struct index_geometry *geometry, unsigned int capacity,
                          unsigned int zone_count, struct sparse_cache **cache_ptr)
{
        int result;
        unsigned int i;
        struct sparse_cache *cache;
        unsigned int bytes;

        bytes = (sizeof(struct sparse_cache) + (capacity * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index)));
        result = vdo_allocate_cache_aligned(bytes, "sparse cache", &cache);
        if (result != VDO_SUCCESS)
                return result;

        cache->geometry = geometry;
        cache->capacity = capacity;
        cache->zone_count = zone_count;

        /*
         * Scale down the skip threshold since the cache only counts cache misses in zone zero, but
         * requests are being handled in all zones.
         */
        cache->skip_threshold = (SKIP_SEARCH_THRESHOLD / zone_count);

        initialize_threads_barrier(&cache->begin_update_barrier, zone_count);
        initialize_threads_barrier(&cache->end_update_barrier, zone_count);

        for (i = 0; i < capacity; i++) {
                result = initialize_cached_chapter_index(&cache->chapters[i], geometry);
                if (result != UDS_SUCCESS)
                        goto out;
        }

        for (i = 0; i < zone_count; i++) {
                result = make_search_list(cache, &cache->search_lists[i]);
                if (result != UDS_SUCCESS)
                        goto out;
        }

        /* purge_search_list() needs some temporary lists for sorting. */
        result = vdo_allocate(capacity * 2, struct cached_chapter_index *,
                              "scratch entries", &cache->scratch_entries);
        if (result != VDO_SUCCESS)
                goto out;

        *cache_ptr = cache;
        return UDS_SUCCESS;
out:
        uds_free_sparse_cache(cache);
        return result;
}

static inline void set_skip_search(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter,
                                   bool skip_search)
{
        /* Check before setting to reduce cache line contention. */
        if (READ_ONCE(chapter->skip_search) != skip_search)
                WRITE_ONCE(chapter->skip_search, skip_search);
}

static void score_search_hit(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter)
{
        chapter->counters.consecutive_misses = 0;
        set_skip_search(chapter, false);
}

static void score_search_miss(struct sparse_cache *cache,
                              struct cached_chapter_index *chapter)
{
        chapter->counters.consecutive_misses++;
        if (chapter->counters.consecutive_misses > cache->skip_threshold)
                set_skip_search(chapter, true);
}

static void release_cached_chapter_index(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter)
{
        unsigned int i;

        chapter->virtual_chapter = NO_CHAPTER;
        if (chapter->page_buffers == NULL)
                return;

        for (i = 0; i < chapter->index_pages_count; i++) {
                if (chapter->page_buffers[i] != NULL)
                        dm_bufio_release(vdo_forget(chapter->page_buffers[i]));
        }
}

void uds_free_sparse_cache(struct sparse_cache *cache)
{
        unsigned int i;

        if (cache == NULL)
                return;

        vdo_free(cache->scratch_entries);

        for (i = 0; i < cache->zone_count; i++)
                vdo_free(cache->search_lists[i]);

        for (i = 0; i < cache->capacity; i++) {
                release_cached_chapter_index(&cache->chapters[i]);
                vdo_free(cache->chapters[i].index_pages);
                vdo_free(cache->chapters[i].page_buffers);
        }

        vdo_free(cache);
}

/*
 * Take the indicated element of the search list and move it to the start, pushing the pointers
 * previously before it back down the list.
 */
static inline void set_newest_entry(struct search_list *search_list, u8 index)
{
        struct cached_chapter_index *newest;

        if (index > 0) {
                newest = search_list->entries[index];
                memmove(&search_list->entries[1], &search_list->entries[0],
                        index * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index *));
                search_list->entries[0] = newest;
        }

        /*
         * This function may have moved a dead chapter to the front of the list for reuse, in which
         * case the set of dead chapters becomes smaller.
         */
        if (search_list->first_dead_entry <= index)
                search_list->first_dead_entry++;
}

bool uds_sparse_cache_contains(struct sparse_cache *cache, u64 virtual_chapter,
                               unsigned int zone_number)
{
        struct search_list *search_list;
        struct cached_chapter_index *chapter;
        u8 i;

        /*
         * The correctness of the barriers depends on the invariant that between calls to
         * uds_update_sparse_cache(), the answers this function returns must never vary: the result
         * for a given chapter must be identical across zones. That invariant must be maintained
         * even if the chapter falls off the end of the volume, or if searching it is disabled
         * because of too many search misses.
         */
        search_list = cache->search_lists[zone_number];
        for (i = 0; i < search_list->first_dead_entry; i++) {
                chapter = search_list->entries[i];

                if (virtual_chapter == chapter->virtual_chapter) {
                        if (zone_number == ZONE_ZERO)
                                score_search_hit(chapter);

                        set_newest_entry(search_list, i);
                        return true;
                }
        }

        return false;
}

/*
 * Re-sort cache entries into three sets (active, skippable, and dead) while maintaining the LRU
 * ordering that already existed. This operation must only be called during the critical section in
 * uds_update_sparse_cache().
 */
static void purge_search_list(struct search_list *search_list,
                              struct sparse_cache *cache, u64 oldest_virtual_chapter)
{
        struct cached_chapter_index **entries;
        struct cached_chapter_index **skipped;
        struct cached_chapter_index **dead;
        struct cached_chapter_index *chapter;
        unsigned int next_alive = 0;
        unsigned int next_skipped = 0;
        unsigned int next_dead = 0;
        unsigned int i;

        entries = &search_list->entries[0];
        skipped = &cache->scratch_entries[0];
        dead = &cache->scratch_entries[search_list->capacity];

        for (i = 0; i < search_list->first_dead_entry; i++) {
                chapter = search_list->entries[i];
                if ((chapter->virtual_chapter < oldest_virtual_chapter) ||
                    (chapter->virtual_chapter == NO_CHAPTER))
                        dead[next_dead++] = chapter;
                else if (chapter->skip_search)
                        skipped[next_skipped++] = chapter;
                else
                        entries[next_alive++] = chapter;
        }

        memcpy(&entries[next_alive], skipped,
               next_skipped * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index *));
        memcpy(&entries[next_alive + next_skipped], dead,
               next_dead * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index *));
        search_list->first_dead_entry = next_alive + next_skipped;
}

static int __must_check cache_chapter_index(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter,
                                            u64 virtual_chapter,
                                            const struct volume *volume)
{
        int result;

        release_cached_chapter_index(chapter);

        result = uds_read_chapter_index_from_volume(volume, virtual_chapter,
                                                    chapter->page_buffers,
                                                    chapter->index_pages);
        if (result != UDS_SUCCESS)
                return result;

        chapter->counters.consecutive_misses = 0;
        chapter->virtual_chapter = virtual_chapter;
        chapter->skip_search = false;

        return UDS_SUCCESS;
}

static inline void copy_search_list(const struct search_list *source,
                                    struct search_list *target)
{
        *target = *source;
        memcpy(target->entries, source->entries,
               source->capacity * sizeof(struct cached_chapter_index *));
}

/*
 * Update the sparse cache to contain a chapter index. This function must be called by all the zone
 * threads with the same chapter number to correctly enter the thread barriers used to synchronize
 * the cache updates.
 */
int uds_update_sparse_cache(struct index_zone *zone, u64 virtual_chapter)
{
        int result = UDS_SUCCESS;
        const struct uds_index *index = zone->index;
        struct sparse_cache *cache = index->volume->sparse_cache;

        if (uds_sparse_cache_contains(cache, virtual_chapter, zone->id))
                return UDS_SUCCESS;

        /*
         * Wait for every zone thread to reach its corresponding barrier request and invoke this
         * function before starting to modify the cache.
         */
        enter_threads_barrier(&cache->begin_update_barrier);

        /*
         * This is the start of the critical section: the zone zero thread is captain, effectively
         * holding an exclusive lock on the sparse cache. All the other zone threads must do
         * nothing between the two barriers. They will wait at the end_update_barrier again for the
         * captain to finish the update.
         */

        if (zone->id == ZONE_ZERO) {
                unsigned int z;
                struct search_list *list = cache->search_lists[ZONE_ZERO];

                purge_search_list(list, cache, zone->oldest_virtual_chapter);

                if (virtual_chapter >= index->oldest_virtual_chapter) {
                        set_newest_entry(list, list->capacity - 1);
                        result = cache_chapter_index(list->entries[0], virtual_chapter,
                                                     index->volume);
                }

                for (z = 1; z < cache->zone_count; z++)
                        copy_search_list(list, cache->search_lists[z]);
        }

        /*
         * This is the end of the critical section. All cache invariants must have been restored.
         */
        enter_threads_barrier(&cache->end_update_barrier);
        return result;
}

void uds_invalidate_sparse_cache(struct sparse_cache *cache)
{
        unsigned int i;

        for (i = 0; i < cache->capacity; i++)
                release_cached_chapter_index(&cache->chapters[i]);
}

static inline bool should_skip_chapter(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter,
                                       u64 oldest_chapter, u64 requested_chapter)
{
        if ((chapter->virtual_chapter == NO_CHAPTER) ||
            (chapter->virtual_chapter < oldest_chapter))
                return true;

        if (requested_chapter != NO_CHAPTER)
                return requested_chapter != chapter->virtual_chapter;
        else
                return READ_ONCE(chapter->skip_search);
}

static int __must_check search_cached_chapter_index(struct cached_chapter_index *chapter,
                                                    const struct index_geometry *geometry,
                                                    const struct index_page_map *index_page_map,
                                                    const struct uds_record_name *name,
                                                    u16 *record_page_ptr)
{
        u32 physical_chapter =
                uds_map_to_physical_chapter(geometry, chapter->virtual_chapter);
        u32 index_page_number =
                uds_find_index_page_number(index_page_map, name, physical_chapter);
        struct delta_index_page *index_page =
                &chapter->index_pages[index_page_number];

        return uds_search_chapter_index_page(index_page, geometry, name,
                                             record_page_ptr);
}

int uds_search_sparse_cache(struct index_zone *zone, const struct uds_record_name *name,
                            u64 *virtual_chapter_ptr, u16 *record_page_ptr)
{
        int result;
        struct volume *volume = zone->index->volume;
        struct sparse_cache *cache = volume->sparse_cache;
        struct cached_chapter_index *chapter;
        struct search_list *search_list;
        u8 i;
        /* Search the entire cache unless a specific chapter was requested. */
        bool search_one = (*virtual_chapter_ptr != NO_CHAPTER);

        *record_page_ptr = NO_CHAPTER_INDEX_ENTRY;
        search_list = cache->search_lists[zone->id];
        for (i = 0; i < search_list->first_dead_entry; i++) {
                chapter = search_list->entries[i];

                if (should_skip_chapter(chapter, zone->oldest_virtual_chapter,
                                        *virtual_chapter_ptr))
                        continue;

                result = search_cached_chapter_index(chapter, cache->geometry,
                                                     volume->index_page_map, name,
                                                     record_page_ptr);
                if (result != UDS_SUCCESS)
                        return result;

                if (*record_page_ptr != NO_CHAPTER_INDEX_ENTRY) {
                        /*
                         * In theory, this might be a false match while a true match exists in
                         * another chapter, but that's a very rare case and not worth the extra
                         * search complexity.
                         */
                        set_newest_entry(search_list, i);
                        if (zone->id == ZONE_ZERO)
                                score_search_hit(chapter);

                        *virtual_chapter_ptr = chapter->virtual_chapter;
                        return UDS_SUCCESS;
                }

                if (zone->id == ZONE_ZERO)
                        score_search_miss(cache, chapter);

                if (search_one)
                        break;
        }

        return UDS_SUCCESS;
}