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authorDean Deng <deandeng@google.com>2020-08-04 15:46:33 -0700
committergVisor bot <gvisor-bot@google.com>2020-08-04 15:48:27 -0700
commit0500f84b6f2e279ce953faaff20454aca69ae493 (patch)
tree9978acd448c672d95ca1b7a974acdb0c809d05e1 /pkg/refs_vfs2
parentaf2f456735252b8412af676a3d6ff61690fdf9a7 (diff)
Add reference counting utility to VFS2.
The utility has several differences from the VFS1 equivalent: - There are no weak references, which have a significant overhead - In order to print useful debug messages with the type of the reference- counted object, we use a generic Refs object with the owner type as a template parameter. In vfs1, this was accomplished by storing a type name and caller stack directly in the ref count (as in vfs1), which increases the struct size by 6x. (Note that the caller stack was needed because fs types like Dirent were shared by all fs implementations; in vfs2, each impl has its own data structures, so this is no longer necessary.) As an example, the utility is added to tmpfs.inode. Updates #1486. PiperOrigin-RevId: 324906582
Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/refs_vfs2')
-rw-r--r--pkg/refs_vfs2/BUILD28
-rw-r--r--pkg/refs_vfs2/refs.go36
-rw-r--r--pkg/refs_vfs2/refs_template.go133
3 files changed, 197 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/refs_vfs2/BUILD b/pkg/refs_vfs2/BUILD
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+++ b/pkg/refs_vfs2/BUILD
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+load("//tools:defs.bzl", "go_library")
+load("//tools/go_generics:defs.bzl", "go_template")
+
+package(licenses = ["notice"])
+
+go_template(
+ name = "refs_template",
+ srcs = [
+ "refs_template.go",
+ ],
+ types = [
+ "T",
+ ],
+ visibility = ["//pkg/sentry:internal"],
+ deps = [
+ "//pkg/log",
+ "//pkg/refs",
+ ],
+)
+
+go_library(
+ name = "refs",
+ srcs = [
+ "refs.go",
+ ],
+ visibility = ["//pkg/sentry:internal"],
+ deps = ["//pkg/context"],
+)
diff --git a/pkg/refs_vfs2/refs.go b/pkg/refs_vfs2/refs.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee01b17b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/refs_vfs2/refs.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package refs defines an interface for a reference-counted object.
+package refs
+
+import (
+ "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/context"
+)
+
+// RefCounter is the interface to be implemented by objects that are reference
+// counted.
+type RefCounter interface {
+ // IncRef increments the reference counter on the object.
+ IncRef()
+
+ // DecRef decrements the object's reference count. Users of refs_template.Refs
+ // may specify a destructor to be called once the reference count reaches zero.
+ DecRef(ctx context.Context)
+
+ // TryIncRef attempts to increment the reference count, but may fail if all
+ // references have already been dropped, in which case it returns false. If
+ // true is returned, then a valid reference is now held on the object.
+ TryIncRef() bool
+}
diff --git a/pkg/refs_vfs2/refs_template.go b/pkg/refs_vfs2/refs_template.go
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index 000000000..3e5b458c7
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+// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package refs_template defines a template that can be used by reference counted
+// objects.
+package refs_template
+
+import (
+ "runtime"
+ "sync/atomic"
+
+ "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/log"
+ refs_vfs1 "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/refs"
+)
+
+// T is the type of the reference counted object. It is only used to customize
+// debug output when leak checking.
+type T interface{}
+
+// ownerType is used to customize logging. Note that we use a pointer to T so
+// that we do not copy the entire object when passed as a format parameter.
+var ownerType *T
+
+// Refs implements refs.RefCounter. It keeps a reference count using atomic
+// operations and calls the destructor when the count reaches zero.
+//
+// Note that the number of references is actually refCount + 1 so that a default
+// zero-value Refs object contains one reference.
+//
+// +stateify savable
+type Refs struct {
+ // refCount is composed of two fields:
+ //
+ // [32-bit speculative references]:[32-bit real references]
+ //
+ // Speculative references are used for TryIncRef, to avoid a CompareAndSwap
+ // loop. See IncRef, DecRef and TryIncRef for details of how these fields are
+ // used.
+ refCount int64
+}
+
+func (r *Refs) finalize() {
+ var note string
+ switch refs_vfs1.GetLeakMode() {
+ case refs_vfs1.NoLeakChecking:
+ return
+ case refs_vfs1.UninitializedLeakChecking:
+ note = "(Leak checker uninitialized): "
+ }
+ if n := r.ReadRefs(); n != 0 {
+ log.Warningf("%sAtomicRefCount %p owned by %T garbage collected with ref count of %d (want 0)", note, r, ownerType, n)
+ }
+}
+
+// EnableLeakCheck checks for reference leaks when Refs gets garbage collected.
+func (r *Refs) EnableLeakCheck() {
+ if refs_vfs1.GetLeakMode() != refs_vfs1.NoLeakChecking {
+ runtime.SetFinalizer(r, (*Refs).finalize)
+ }
+}
+
+// ReadRefs returns the current number of references. The returned count is
+// inherently racy and is unsafe to use without external synchronization.
+func (r *Refs) ReadRefs() int64 {
+ // Account for the internal -1 offset on refcounts.
+ return atomic.LoadInt64(&r.refCount) + 1
+}
+
+// IncRef implements refs.RefCounter.IncRef.
+//
+//go:nosplit
+func (r *Refs) IncRef() {
+ if v := atomic.AddInt64(&r.refCount, 1); v <= 0 {
+ panic("Incrementing non-positive ref count")
+ }
+}
+
+// TryIncRef implements refs.RefCounter.TryIncRef.
+//
+// To do this safely without a loop, a speculative reference is first acquired
+// on the object. This allows multiple concurrent TryIncRef calls to distinguish
+// other TryIncRef calls from genuine references held.
+//
+//go:nosplit
+func (r *Refs) TryIncRef() bool {
+ const speculativeRef = 1 << 32
+ v := atomic.AddInt64(&r.refCount, speculativeRef)
+ if int32(v) < 0 {
+ // This object has already been freed.
+ atomic.AddInt64(&r.refCount, -speculativeRef)
+ return false
+ }
+
+ // Turn into a real reference.
+ atomic.AddInt64(&r.refCount, -speculativeRef+1)
+ return true
+}
+
+// DecRef implements refs.RefCounter.DecRef.
+//
+// Note that speculative references are counted here. Since they were added
+// prior to real references reaching zero, they will successfully convert to
+// real references. In other words, we see speculative references only in the
+// following case:
+//
+// A: TryIncRef [speculative increase => sees non-negative references]
+// B: DecRef [real decrease]
+// A: TryIncRef [transform speculative to real]
+//
+//go:nosplit
+func (r *Refs) DecRef(destroy func()) {
+ switch v := atomic.AddInt64(&r.refCount, -1); {
+ case v < -1:
+ panic("Decrementing non-positive ref count")
+
+ case v == -1:
+ // Call the destructor.
+ if destroy != nil {
+ destroy()
+ }
+ }
+}