The ep_poll_safewake() function 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. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Salman Qazi <[email protected]> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c index 2fabd19..69acfab 100644 --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -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; @@ -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(); @@ -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; @@ -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); -- 2.6.1
