linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] sched/wait: avoid abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_on_bit

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Message-ID: <20160826124552.GB28904@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:45:52 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sched/wait: avoid abort_exclusive_wait() in
 __wait_on_bit_lock()

I think it would be nice to kill abort_exclusive_wait(). This patch
changes __wait_on_bit_lock(), but we can do a similar change to remove
it from ___wait_event().

We do not need anything tricky to avoid the race, we can just call
finish_wait() if action() fails. test_and_set_bit() implies mb() so
the lockless list_empty_careful() case is fine, we can not miss the
condition if we race with unlock_page().

I am not sure we even want to conditionalize both finish_wait()'s,
we could simply call it unconditionally and once before test_and_set(),
the spurious wakeup is unlikely case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/wait.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 2bbba01..c10e904 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -423,20 +423,28 @@ int __sched
 __wait_on_bit_lock(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
 			wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned mode)
 {
-	do {
-		int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
+	for (;;) {
 		prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wq, &q->wait, mode);
-		if (!test_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags))
-			continue;
-		ret = action(&q->key, mode);
-		if (!ret)
-			continue;
-		abort_exclusive_wait(wq, &q->wait, &q->key);
-		return ret;
-	} while (test_and_set_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags));
-	finish_wait(wq, &q->wait);
-	return 0;
+		if (test_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags)) {
+			ret = action(&q->key, mode);
+			/*
+			 * Ensure that clear_bit() + wake_up() right after
+			 * test_and_set_bit() below can't see us; it should
+			 * wake up another exclusive waiter if we fail.
+			 */
+			if (ret)
+				finish_wait(wq, &q->wait);
+		}
+		if (!test_and_set_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags)) {
+			if (!ret)
+				finish_wait(wq, &q->wait);
+			return 0;
+		} else if (ret) {
+			return ret;
+		}
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__wait_on_bit_lock);
 
-- 
2.5.0