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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-02-04 22:27:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:07 -0800
commit0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c (patch)
tree4de8d53c51dc4aff80f35a95cdd185229f0df79e /include
parent96cf49a2c13e8dcf442abaadf6645f6a1fb3ae92 (diff)
downloadlinux-0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c.tar.gz
lockdep: annotate epoll
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:35 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> I remember I talked with Arjan about this time ago. Basically, since 1)
> you can drop an epoll fd inside another epoll fd 2) callback-based wakeups
> are used, you can see a wake_up() from inside another wake_up(), but they
> will never refer to the same lock instance.
> Think about:
>
> 	dfd = socket(...);
> 	efd1 = epoll_create();
> 	efd2 = epoll_create();
> 	epoll_ctl(efd1, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, dfd, ...);
> 	epoll_ctl(efd2, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd1, ...);
>
> When a packet arrives to the device underneath "dfd", the net code will
> issue a wake_up() on its poll wake list. Epoll (efd1) has installed a
> callback wakeup entry on that queue, and the wake_up() performed by the
> "dfd" net code will end up in ep_poll_callback(). At this point epoll
> (efd1) notices that it may have some event ready, so it needs to wake up
> the waiters on its poll wait list (efd2). So it calls ep_poll_safewake()
> that ends up in another wake_up(), after having checked about the
> recursion constraints. That are, no more than EP_MAX_POLLWAKE_NESTS, to
> avoid stack blasting. Never hit the same queue, to avoid loops like:
>
> 	epoll_ctl(efd2, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd1, ...);
> 	epoll_ctl(efd3, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd2, ...);
> 	epoll_ctl(efd4, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd3, ...);
> 	epoll_ctl(efd1, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd4, ...);
>
> The code "if (tncur->wq == wq || ..." prevents re-entering the same
> queue/lock.

Since the epoll code is very careful to not nest same instance locks
allow the recursion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/wait.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 1f4fb0a81ecd..33a2aa9e02f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ wait_queue_head_t *FASTCALL(bit_waitqueue(void *, int));
 #define wake_up_interruptible_all(x)	__wake_up(x, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 0, NULL)
 #define wake_up_interruptible_sync(x)	__wake_up_sync((x), TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 1)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+/*
+ * macro to avoid include hell
+ */
+#define wake_up_nested(x, s)						\
+do {									\
+	unsigned long flags;						\
+									\
+	spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&(x)->lock, flags, (s));		\
+	wake_up_locked(x); 						\
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(x)->lock, flags);			\
+} while (0)
+#else
+#define wake_up_nested(x, s)		wake_up(x)
+#endif
+
 #define __wait_event(wq, condition) 					\
 do {									\
 	DEFINE_WAIT(__wait);						\