linux-kernel - Re: waitqueue lockdep annotation

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:18:07 -0500
From:   Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: waitqueue lockdep annotation



On 11/30/2017 05:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 04:38:02PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
>> I don't think there is a bug here. The 'wake_up_locked()' calls in epoll
>> are being protected by the ep->lock, not the wait_queue_head lock. So
>> arguably the 'annotation' is wrong, but I don't think there is a bug
>> beyond that.
> 
> They can't be protected by ep->lock.  The file might as well be
> watched for using poll or select as well, or just using epoll using
> another epoll fd.
> 

Yes, but for those cases it uses the ep->poll_wait waitqueue not the
ep->wq, which is guarded by the ep->wq->lock.

See the comments in 'struct eventpoll':

        /* Wait queue used by sys_epoll_wait() */


        wait_queue_head_t wq;





        /* Wait queue used by file->poll() */


        wait_queue_head_t poll_wait;

Thanks,

-Jason