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epoll: avoid calling ep_call_nested() from ep_poll_safewake()
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ep_poll_safewake() is used to wakeup potentially nested epoll file
descriptors.  The function uses ep_call_nested() to prevent entering the
same wake up queue more than once, and to prevent excessively deep
wakeup paths (deeper than EP_MAX_NESTS).  However, this is not necessary
since we are already preventing these conditions during EPOLL_CTL_ADD.
This saves extra function calls, and avoids taking a global lock during
the ep_call_nested() calls.

I have, however, left ep_call_nested() for the CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
case, since ep_call_nested() keeps track of the nesting level, and this
is required by the call to spin_lock_irqsave_nested().  It would be nice
to remove the ep_call_nested() calls for the CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
case as well, however its not clear how to simply pass the nesting level
through multiple wake_up() levels without more surgery.  In any case, I
don't think CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is generally used for production.
This patch, also apparently fixes a workload at Google that Salman Qazi
reported by completely removing the poll_safewake_ncalls->lock from
wakeup paths.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Salman Qazi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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almostivan authored and torvalds committed Nov 18, 2017
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47 changes: 18 additions & 29 deletions fs/eventpoll.c
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Expand Up @@ -276,9 +276,6 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(epmutex);
/* Used to check for epoll file descriptor inclusion loops */
static struct nested_calls poll_loop_ncalls;

/* Used for safe wake up implementation */
static struct nested_calls poll_safewake_ncalls;

/* Used to call file's f_op->poll() under the nested calls boundaries */
static struct nested_calls poll_readywalk_ncalls;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -551,40 +548,21 @@ static int ep_call_nested(struct nested_calls *ncalls, int max_nests,
* this special case of epoll.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
static inline void ep_wake_up_nested(wait_queue_head_t *wqueue,
unsigned long events, int subclass)

static struct nested_calls poll_safewake_ncalls;

static int ep_poll_wakeup_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
{
unsigned long flags;
wait_queue_head_t *wqueue = (wait_queue_head_t *)cookie;

spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&wqueue->lock, flags, subclass);
wake_up_locked_poll(wqueue, events);
spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&wqueue->lock, flags, call_nests + 1);
wake_up_locked_poll(wqueue, POLLIN);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wqueue->lock, flags);
}
#else
static inline void ep_wake_up_nested(wait_queue_head_t *wqueue,
unsigned long events, int subclass)
{
wake_up_poll(wqueue, events);
}
#endif

static int ep_poll_wakeup_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int call_nests)
{
ep_wake_up_nested((wait_queue_head_t *) cookie, POLLIN,
1 + call_nests);
return 0;
}

/*
* Perform a safe wake up of the poll wait list. The problem is that
* with the new callback'd wake up system, it is possible that the
* poll callback is reentered from inside the call to wake_up() done
* on the poll wait queue head. The rule is that we cannot reenter the
* wake up code from the same task more than EP_MAX_NESTS times,
* and we cannot reenter the same wait queue head at all. This will
* enable to have a hierarchy of epoll file descriptor of no more than
* EP_MAX_NESTS deep.
*/
static void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
{
int this_cpu = get_cpu();
Expand All @@ -595,6 +573,15 @@ static void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
put_cpu();
}

#else

static void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
{
wake_up_poll(wq, POLLIN);
}

#endif

static void ep_remove_wait_queue(struct eppoll_entry *pwq)
{
wait_queue_head_t *whead;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2315,8 +2302,10 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void)
*/
ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_loop_ncalls);

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/* Initialize the structure used to perform safe poll wait head wake ups */
ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_safewake_ncalls);
#endif

/* Initialize the structure used to perform file's f_op->poll() calls */
ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_readywalk_ncalls);
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