A bus lock can be thousands of cycles slower than atomic operation within
one cache line. It also disrupts performance on other cores. Malicious
users can generate multiple bus locks to degrade the whole system
performance.
The current mitigation is to kill the offending process, but for certain
scenarios it's desired to identify and throttle the offending application.
Add a system wide rate limit for bus locks. When the system detects bus
locks at a rate higher than N/sec (where N can be set by the kernel boot
argument in the range [1..1000]) any task triggering a bus lock will be
forced to sleep for at least 20ms until the overall system rate of bus
locks drops below the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419214958.4035512-3-fenghua.yu@intel.com
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