Re: [patch 3/3] timerfd: Implement write method

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 16:03:41 EST


[CC += linux-api@]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 06:58:19AM +0900, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> >
>> > So what wakes a potential waiter in read/poll?
>>
>> And who is updating timerfd_create(2) ?
>
> Thomas, could you please take a look if the approach below is acceptable?
> If it will be fine I update manpage then.
> ---
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: timerfd: Implement timerfd_ioctl method to restore timerfd_ctx::ticks
>
> The read() of timerfd files allows to fetch the number of timer ticks
> while there is no way to set it back from userspace.
>
> To restore the timer's state as it was at checkpoint moment we need
> a path to bring @ticks back. Initially I thought about writing ticks
> back via write() interface but it seems such API is somehow obscure.
>
> Instead implement timerfd_ioctl() method with TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS
> command which requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability to be able to
> set @ticks into arbitrary value. Note this command doesn't wake
> up readers/waiters and its purpose only to serve C/R needs
> (for same sake I wrapped code with CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE).
> Still if needed the ioctl may be extended for new commands
> and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE dropped off.
>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/timerfd.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/timerfd.h | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/timerfd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/timerfd.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/fs/timerfd.c
> @@ -313,11 +313,42 @@ static int timerfd_show(struct seq_file
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
> +static long timerfd_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +{
> + struct timerfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + switch (cmd) {
> + case TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS: {
> + u64 ticks;
> +
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
> + return -EPERM;
> + if (get_user(ticks, (u64 __user *)arg))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
> + ctx->ticks = ticks;
> + spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
> + break;
> + }
> + default:
> + ret = -ENOTTY;
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> static const struct file_operations timerfd_fops = {
> .release = timerfd_release,
> .poll = timerfd_poll,
> .read = timerfd_read,
> .llseek = noop_llseek,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
> + .unlocked_ioctl = timerfd_ioctl,
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> .show_fdinfo = timerfd_show,
> #endif
> Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/timerfd.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/timerfd.h
> +++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/timerfd.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
> /* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */
> #include <linux/fcntl.h>
>
> +/* For _IO helpers */
> +#include <linux/ioctl.h>
> +
> /*
> * CAREFUL: Check include/asm-generic/fcntl.h when defining
> * new flags, since they might collide with O_* ones. We want
> @@ -29,4 +32,6 @@
> /* Flags for timerfd_settime. */
> #define TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS (TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME | TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
>
> +#define TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS _IOW('T', 0, u64)
> +
> #endif /* _LINUX_TIMERFD_H */



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