Module Name:    src
Committed By:   dholland
Date:           Mon Jan 25 19:21:11 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        src/sys/kern: sys_pipe.c
        src/sys/sys: pipe.h

Log Message:
Fix a thundering herd problem in pipes.

Wake only one waiter when data becomes available, not all of them.
Waking them all is not a usual case, but turns up with make's job
token pipes. (Probably make's job signalling scheme should also be
revised, assuming rillig hasn't already done that, but that's a
separate issue.)

This change will not do us much good for the moment because we don't
distinguish cv_signal from cv_broadcast for interruptible sleeps, but
that's also a separate problem.

Seen on FreeBSD; from mjg at freebsd a couple months ago. Patch was
mine (iirc) but the real work in this sort of thing is discovering the
problem.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.151 -r1.152 src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.37 -r1.38 src/sys/sys/pipe.h

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c
diff -u src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:1.151 src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:1.152
--- src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:1.151	Fri Dec 11 03:00:09 2020
+++ src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c	Mon Jan 25 19:21:11 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: sys_pipe.c,v 1.151 2020/12/11 03:00:09 thorpej Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: sys_pipe.c,v 1.152 2021/01/25 19:21:11 dholland Exp $	*/
 
 /*-
  * Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
-__KERNEL_RCSID(0, "$NetBSD: sys_pipe.c,v 1.151 2020/12/11 03:00:09 thorpej Exp $");
+__KERNEL_RCSID(0, "$NetBSD: sys_pipe.c,v 1.152 2021/01/25 19:21:11 dholland Exp $");
 
 #include <sys/param.h>
 #include <sys/systm.h>
@@ -344,13 +344,19 @@ pipelock(struct pipe *pipe, bool catch_p
 	KASSERT(mutex_owned(pipe->pipe_lock));
 
 	while (pipe->pipe_state & PIPE_LOCKFL) {
-		pipe->pipe_state |= PIPE_LWANT;
+		pipe->pipe_waiters++;
+		KASSERT(pipe->pipe_waiters != 0); /* just in case */
 		if (catch_p) {
 			error = cv_wait_sig(&pipe->pipe_lkcv, pipe->pipe_lock);
-			if (error != 0)
+			if (error != 0) {
+				KASSERT(pipe->pipe_waiters > 0);
+				pipe->pipe_waiters--;
 				return error;
+			}
 		} else
 			cv_wait(&pipe->pipe_lkcv, pipe->pipe_lock);
+		KASSERT(pipe->pipe_waiters > 0);
+		pipe->pipe_waiters--;
 	}
 
 	pipe->pipe_state |= PIPE_LOCKFL;
@@ -368,9 +374,8 @@ pipeunlock(struct pipe *pipe)
 	KASSERT(pipe->pipe_state & PIPE_LOCKFL);
 
 	pipe->pipe_state &= ~PIPE_LOCKFL;
-	if (pipe->pipe_state & PIPE_LWANT) {
-		pipe->pipe_state &= ~PIPE_LWANT;
-		cv_broadcast(&pipe->pipe_lkcv);
+	if (pipe->pipe_waiters > 0) {
+		cv_signal(&pipe->pipe_lkcv);
 	}
 }
 

Index: src/sys/sys/pipe.h
diff -u src/sys/sys/pipe.h:1.37 src/sys/sys/pipe.h:1.38
--- src/sys/sys/pipe.h:1.37	Thu Jun 25 14:22:19 2020
+++ src/sys/sys/pipe.h	Mon Jan 25 19:21:11 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: pipe.h,v 1.37 2020/06/25 14:22:19 jdolecek Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: pipe.h,v 1.38 2021/01/25 19:21:11 dholland Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1996 John S. Dyson
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ struct pipebuf {
 #define PIPE_SIGNALR	0x020	/* Do selwakeup() on read(2) */
 #define	PIPE_LOCKFL	0x100	/* Process has exclusive access to
 				   pointers/data. */
-#define	PIPE_LWANT	0x200	/* Process wants exclusive access to
-				   pointers/data. */
+/*	unused  	0x200	*/
 #define	PIPE_RESTART	0x400	/* Return ERESTART to blocked syscalls */
 
 /*
@@ -100,6 +99,7 @@ struct pipe {
 	struct	timespec pipe_mtime;	/* time of last modify */
 	struct	timespec pipe_btime;	/* time of creation */
 	pid_t	pipe_pgid;		/* process group for sigio */
+	u_int	pipe_waiters;		/* number of waiters pending */
 	struct	pipe *pipe_peer;	/* link with other direction */
 	u_int	pipe_state;		/* pipe status info */
 	int	pipe_busy;		/* busy flag, to handle rundown */

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