Re: [PATCH] ipc: Update semtimedop() to use hrtimer

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Apr 27 2022 - 18:06:27 EST


Prakash,

On Mon, Apr 18 2022 at 18:51, Prakash Sangappa wrote:
> @@ -1995,7 +1995,10 @@ long __do_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops,
> int max, locknum;
> bool undos = false, alter = false, dupsop = false;
> struct sem_queue queue;
> - unsigned long dup = 0, jiffies_left = 0;
> + unsigned long dup = 0;
> + ktime_t expires;
> + int timed_out = 0;

bool perhaps?

> + struct timespec64 end_time;
>
> if (nsops < 1 || semid < 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -2008,7 +2011,9 @@ long __do_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops,

While at it, can you please replace the open coded validation of timeout
with timespec64_valid()?

> error = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
> - jiffies_left = timespec64_to_jiffies(timeout);
> + ktime_get_ts64(&end_time);
> + end_time = timespec64_add_safe(end_time, *timeout);
> + expires = timespec64_to_ktime(end_time);

Converting to ktime first makes this cheaper:

expires = ktime_get() + timespec64_to_ns(timeout);

Less code lines and shorter execution time because adding scalars is
obviously cheaper than adding timespecs.

Now if you add:

ktime_t expires, *exp = NULL;

then you can do here:

exp = &expires;
> }
>
>
> @@ -2167,7 +2172,9 @@ long __do_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops,
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> if (timeout)
> - jiffies_left = schedule_timeout(jiffies_left);
> + timed_out = !schedule_hrtimeout_range(&expires,
> + current->timer_slack_ns,
> + HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
> else
> schedule();

and this can be simplified to:

timed_out = !schedule_hrtimeout_range(exp, current->timer_slack_ns,
HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)

schedule_hrtimeout_range() directly invokes schedule() when @exp == NULL
and returns != 0 when woken up in that case.

> @@ -2210,7 +2217,7 @@ long __do_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf *sops,
> /*
> * If an interrupt occurred we have to clean up the queue.
> */
> - if (timeout && jiffies_left == 0)
> + if (timeout && timed_out)

and this becomes

if (timed_out)

> error = -EAGAIN;
> } while (error == -EINTR && !signal_pending(current)); /* spurious */

Hmm?

Done right, you should end up with a negative diffstat :)

Thanks,

tglx