From 11a3122f6cf2d988a77eb8883d0fc49cd013a6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:51:30 +0100 Subject: block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context() put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid deferring ioc release to workqueue. It was also broken on UP because trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced preemption count. While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the optimization. Strip it out. If there turns out to be workloads which are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion thread can be applied later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- kernel/fork.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 051f090d40c1..c574aefa8d1b 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ static int copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) return -ENOMEM; new_ioc->ioprio = ioc->ioprio; - put_io_context(new_ioc, NULL); + put_io_context(new_ioc); } #endif return 0; -- cgit v1.2.3 From d80e731ecab420ddcb79ee9d0ac427acbc187b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:07:11 +0100 Subject: epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree() This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review. It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh. See the next change. epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything f_op->poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its ->sighand which is not connected to the file. This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in eventpoll. __cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if ->signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup() helper. ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list). This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with epoll. The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL) returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread. In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms. It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll locks, this seems to be true. Note: - we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll() is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE. - signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE, we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to make sure it can't be "lost". Reported-by: Maxime Bizon Cc: Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b77fd559c78e..e2cd3e2a5ae8 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -935,8 +936,10 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *sighand) { - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) { + signalfd_cleanup(sighand); kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); + } } -- cgit v1.2.3