Re: [PATCH] epoll: simplify ep_poll_safewake() for CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC

From: Jason Baron
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 13:35:12 EST




On 9/23/19 3:23 PM, Roman Penyaev wrote:
> On 2019-09-23 17:43, Jason Baron wrote:
>> On 9/4/19 4:22 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
>>> Currently, ep_poll_safewake() in the CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC case uses
>>> ep_call_nested() in order to pass the correct subclass argument to
>>> spin_lock_irqsave_nested(). However, ep_call_nested() adds unnecessary
>>> checks for epoll depth and loops that are already verified when doing
>>> EPOLL_CTL_ADD. This mirrors a conversion that was done for
>>> !CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC in: commit 37b5e5212a44 ("epoll: remove
>>> ep_call_nested() from ep_eventpoll_poll()")
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Âfs/eventpoll.c | 36 +++++++++++++-----------------------
>>> Â1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> index d7f1f50..a9b2737 100644
>>> --- a/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
>>> @@ -551,28 +551,23 @@ static int ep_call_nested(struct nested_calls
>>> *ncalls,
>>> Â */
>>> Â#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
>>>
>>> -static struct nested_calls poll_safewake_ncalls;
>>> -
>>> -static int ep_poll_wakeup_proc(void *priv, void *cookie, int
>>> call_nests)
>>> -{
>>> -ÂÂÂ unsigned long flags;
>>> -ÂÂÂ wait_queue_head_t *wqueue = (wait_queue_head_t *)cookie;
>>> -
>>> -ÂÂÂ spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&wqueue->lock, flags, call_nests + 1);
>>> -ÂÂÂ wake_up_locked_poll(wqueue, EPOLLIN);
>>> -ÂÂÂ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wqueue->lock, flags);
>>> -
>>> -ÂÂÂ return 0;
>>> -}
>>> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, wakeup_nest);
>>>
>>> Âstatic void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
>>> Â{
>>> -ÂÂÂ int this_cpu = get_cpu();
>>> -
>>> -ÂÂÂ ep_call_nested(&poll_safewake_ncalls,
>>> -ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ep_poll_wakeup_proc, NULL, wq, (void *) (long)
>>> this_cpu);
>>> +ÂÂÂ unsigned long flags;
>>> +ÂÂÂ int subclass;
>>>
>>> -ÂÂÂ put_cpu();
>>> +ÂÂÂ local_irq_save(flags);
>>> +ÂÂÂ preempt_disable();
>>> +ÂÂÂ subclass = __this_cpu_read(wakeup_nest);
>>> +ÂÂÂ spin_lock_nested(&wq->lock, subclass + 1);
>>> +ÂÂÂ __this_cpu_inc(wakeup_nest);
>>> +ÂÂÂ wake_up_locked_poll(wq, POLLIN);
>>> +ÂÂÂ __this_cpu_dec(wakeup_nest);
>>> +ÂÂÂ spin_unlock(&wq->lock);
>>> +ÂÂÂ local_irq_restore(flags);
>>> +ÂÂÂ preempt_enable();
>>> Â}
>
> What if reduce number of lines with something as the following:
>
> ÂÂ int this_cpu = get_cpu();
> ÂÂ subclass = __this_cpu_inc_return(wakeup_nest);
> ÂÂ spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&wq->lock, flags, subclass);
> ÂÂ wake_up_locked_poll(wq, POLLIN);
> ÂÂ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq->lock, flags);
> ÂÂ __this_cpu_dec(wakeup_nest);
> ÂÂ put_cpu();
>
> Other than that looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
>
> --
> Roman


Hi,

I put the local_irq_save(flags), call there first so that there wouldn't
be any nesting. For example, in your sequence, there could be an irq
after the __this_cpu_inc_return(), that could end up back here.

I still can use __this_cpu_inc_return() to simplify things a bit.

Thanks,

-Jason