linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] wait: Reimplement wait_event

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Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:48:36 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peter@...leysoftware.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	eparis@...hat.com, umgwanakikbuti@...il.com, marcel@...tmann.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, davem@...emloft.net, fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] wait: Reimplement wait_event_freezable()

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:38:02PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > Provide better implementations of wait_event_freezable() APIs.
> >
> > The problem is with freezer_do_not_count(), it hides the thread from
> > the freezer, even though this thread might not actually freeze/sleep
> > at all.
> 
> I agree, wait_event_freezable() is awful. But could you clarify "at all" ?
> 
> Sure, the task can be preempted right after it sets, it can do a lot
> of things before it calls schedule(), it can be woken after that and
> it can run again and do something else before freezer_count() calls
> try_to_freeze(), etc.
> 
> Is this what you meant?

Yes.

> > +#define __wait_event_freezable(wq, condition)				\
> > +	(void)___wait_event(wq, condition, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 0, 0,	\
> > +			    schedule(); try_to_freeze())
> 
> I don't think this can work.

Yeah, that was horribly broken. defconfig didn't seem to find a usage
site. Wu's robot offered a .config quickly enough though ;-)
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