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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-02-05 01:27:20 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 12:44:07 -0500
commit0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c (patch)
tree4de8d53c51dc4aff80f35a95cdd185229f0df79e /fs/eventpoll.c
parent96cf49a2c13e8dcf442abaadf6645f6a1fb3ae92 (diff)
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>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 81c04abfb1aa..a415f42d32cf 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void ep_poll_safewake(struct poll_safewake *psw, wait_queue_head_t *wq)
353 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psw->lock, flags); 353 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psw->lock, flags);
354 354
355 /* Do really wake up now */ 355 /* Do really wake up now */
356 wake_up(wq); 356 wake_up_nested(wq, 1 + wake_nests);
357 357
358 /* Remove the current task from the list */ 358 /* Remove the current task from the list */
359 spin_lock_irqsave(&psw->lock, flags); 359 spin_lock_irqsave(&psw->lock, flags);