On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:40:51AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > +void __wake_up_page_bit(wait_queue_head_t *wqh, struct page *page, void 
> > *word, int bit)
> > +{
> > +   struct wait_bit_key key = __WAIT_BIT_KEY_INITIALIZER(word, bit);
> > +   unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +   /* If there is no PG_waiters bit, always take the slow path */
> 
> That comment is misleading, this is actually a fast path for
> !PG_waiters.
> 

And could have been far better anyway now that you called me on it.

> > +   if (!__PG_WAITERS && waitqueue_active(wq)) {
> > +           __wake_up(wq, TASK_NORMAL, 1, &key);
> > +           return;
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   /*
> > +    * Unlike __wake_up_bit it is necessary to check waitqueue_active to be
> > +    * checked under the wqh->lock to avoid races with parallel additions
> > +    * to the waitqueue. Otherwise races could result in lost wakeups
> > +    */
> > +   spin_lock_irqsave(&wqh->lock, flags);
> > +   if (waitqueue_active(wqh))
> > +           __wake_up_common(wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, 0, &key);
> > +   else
> > +           ClearPageWaiters(page);
> > +   spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wqh->lock, flags);
> > +}
> 
> So I think you missed one Clear opportunity here that was in my original
> proposal, possibly because you also frobbed PG_writeback in.
> 

It got lost in the midst of all the other modifications to make this as
"obvious" as possible.

> <SNIP>
>
> I suppose the one thing to say for the big open coded loop is that its
> much easier to read than this scattered stuff.
> 

Sure, but the end result of open coding this is duplicated code that will
be harder to maintain overall. I could split __wake_up_bit and use that
in both but I do not think it would make the code any clearer for the sake
of two lines.  Untested but this on top?

diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 73cb8c6..d3a8c34 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -60,19 +60,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_wait_queue);
  * There are circumstances in which we can try to wake a task which has already
  * started to run but is not in state TASK_RUNNING. try_to_wake_up() returns
  * zero in this (rare) case, and we handle it by continuing to scan the queue.
+ *
+ * Returns true if a process was woken up
  */
-static void __wake_up_common(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
+static bool __wake_up_common(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
                        int nr_exclusive, int wake_flags, void *key)
 {
        wait_queue_t *curr, *next;
+       bool woke = false;
 
        list_for_each_entry_safe(curr, next, &q->task_list, task_list) {
                unsigned flags = curr->flags;
 
-               if (curr->func(curr, mode, wake_flags, key) &&
-                               (flags & WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE) && !--nr_exclusive)
-                       break;
+               if (curr->func(curr, mode, wake_flags, key)) {
+                       woke = true;
+                       if ((flags & WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE) && !--nr_exclusive)
+                               break;
+               }
        }
+
+       return woke;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -441,9 +448,13 @@ void __wake_up_page_bit(wait_queue_head_t *wqh, struct 
page *page, void *word, i
        struct wait_bit_key key = __WAIT_BIT_KEY_INITIALIZER(word, bit);
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       /* If there is no PG_waiters bit, always take the slow path */
-       if (!__PG_WAITERS && waitqueue_active(wq)) {
-               __wake_up(wq, TASK_NORMAL, 1, &key);
+       /*
+        * If there is no PG_waiters bit (32-bit), then waitqueue_active can be
+        * checked without wqh->lock as there is no PG_waiters race to protect.
+        */
+       if (!__PG_WAITERS) {
+               if (waitqueue_active(wqh))
+                       __wake_up(wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, &key);
                return;
        }
 
@@ -453,9 +464,8 @@ void __wake_up_page_bit(wait_queue_head_t *wqh, struct page 
*page, void *word, i
         * to the waitqueue. Otherwise races could result in lost wakeups
         */
        spin_lock_irqsave(&wqh->lock, flags);
-       if (waitqueue_active(wqh))
-               __wake_up_common(wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, 0, &key);
-       else
+       if (!waitqueue_active(wqh) ||
+           !__wake_up_common(wqh, TASK_NORMAL, 1, 0, &key))
                ClearPageWaiters(page);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wqh->lock, flags);
 }

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