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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2008-02-05 01:27:20 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 12:44:07 -0500 |
commit | 0ccf831cbee94df9c5006dd46248c0f07847dd7c (patch) | |
tree | 4de8d53c51dc4aff80f35a95cdd185229f0df79e /fs | |
parent | 96cf49a2c13e8dcf442abaadf6645f6a1fb3ae92 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/eventpoll.c | 2 |
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); |