Commit 0c54a6a4 authored by Khazhismel Kumykov's avatar Khazhismel Kumykov Committed by Linus Torvalds

eventpoll: fix missing wakeup for ovflist in ep_poll_callback

In the event that we add to ovflist, before commit 339ddb53
("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll") we would be
woken up by ep_scan_ready_list, and did no wakeup in ep_poll_callback.

With that wakeup removed, if we add to ovflist here, we may never wake
up.  Rather than adding back the ep_scan_ready_list wakeup - which was
resulting in unnecessary wakeups, trigger a wake-up in ep_poll_callback.

We noticed that one of our workloads was missing wakeups starting with
339ddb53 and upon manual inspection, this wakeup seemed missing to me.
With this patch added, we no longer see missing wakeups.  I haven't yet
tried to make a small reproducer, but the existing kselftests in
filesystem/epoll passed for me with this patch.

[khazhy@google.com: use if/elif instead of goto + cleanup suggested by Roman]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200424190039.192373-1-khazhy@google.com
Fixes: 339ddb53 ("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRoman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200424025057.118641-1-khazhy@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 996ed22c
......@@ -1171,6 +1171,10 @@ static inline bool chain_epi_lockless(struct epitem *epi)
{
struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep;
/* Fast preliminary check */
if (epi->next != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR)
return false;
/* Check that the same epi has not been just chained from another CPU */
if (cmpxchg(&epi->next, EP_UNACTIVE_PTR, NULL) != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR)
return false;
......@@ -1237,15 +1241,11 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, v
* chained in ep->ovflist and requeued later on.
*/
if (READ_ONCE(ep->ovflist) != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR) {
if (epi->next == EP_UNACTIVE_PTR &&
chain_epi_lockless(epi))
if (chain_epi_lockless(epi))
ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu(epi);
goto out_unlock;
}
/* If this file is already in the ready list we exit soon */
if (!ep_is_linked(epi) &&
list_add_tail_lockless(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist)) {
} else if (!ep_is_linked(epi)) {
/* In the usual case, add event to ready list. */
if (list_add_tail_lockless(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist))
ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu(epi);
}
......
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