linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/epoll: rework safewake for CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK

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Date:   Mon,  6 Jan 2020 11:38:30 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     rpenyaev@...e.de
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dave@...olabs.net, jbaron@...mai.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, normalperson@...t.net,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] fs/epoll: rework safewake for CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC

Some comments on:

      f6520c52084 (epoll: simplify ep_poll_safewake() for CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC)

For one this does not play nice with preempt_rt as disabling irq and
then taking a spinlock_t is a no no; the critical region becomes
preemptible. This is particularly important as -rt is being mainlined.

Secondly, it is really ugly compared to what we had before - albeit not
having to deal with all the ep_call_nested() checks, but I doubt this
overhead matters at all with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.

While the current logic avoids nesting by disabling irq during the whole
path, this seems like an overkill under debug. This patch proposes using
this_cpu_inc_return() then taking the irq-safe lock - albeit a possible
irq coming in the middle between these operations and messing up the
subclass. If this is unacceptable, we could always revert the patch,
as this was never a problem in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
---

This is pretty much untested - I wanted to see what is the best way to
address the concerns first.

XXX: I don't think we need get/put_cpu() around the call, this was intended
only for ep_call_nested() tasks_call_list checking afaict.

 fs/eventpoll.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 67a395039268..97d036deff3e 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -558,16 +558,17 @@ static void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int subclass;

-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	preempt_disable();
-	subclass = __this_cpu_read(wakeup_nest);
-	spin_lock_nested(&wq->lock, subclass + 1);
-	__this_cpu_inc(wakeup_nest);
+	subclass = this_cpu_inc_return(wakeup_nest);
+	/*
+	 * Careful: while unlikely, an irq can occur here and mess up
+	 * the subclass. The same goes for right before the dec
+	 * operation, but that does not matter.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&wq->lock, flags, subclass + 1);
 	wake_up_locked_poll(wq, POLLIN);
-	__this_cpu_dec(wakeup_nest);
-	spin_unlock(&wq->lock);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
-	preempt_enable();
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq->lock, flags);
+
+	this_cpu_dec(wakeup_nest);
 }

 #else
-- 
2.16.4