linux-kernel - [patch 45/50] futex: Clarify comment in futex

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Message-Id: <20210713160750.348812588@linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:11:39 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Subject: [patch 45/50] futex: Clarify comment in futex_requeue()

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

The comment about the restriction of the number of waiters to wake for the
REQUEUE_PI case is confusing at best. Rewrite it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 8ffeb9871476..e92c871aa133 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1960,15 +1960,27 @@ static int futex_requeue(u32 __user *uaddr1, unsigned int flags,
 		 */
 		if (refill_pi_state_cache())
 			return -ENOMEM;
+
 		/*
-		 * requeue_pi must wake as many tasks as it can, up to nr_wake
-		 * + nr_requeue, since it acquires the rt_mutex prior to
-		 * returning to userspace, so as to not leave the rt_mutex with
-		 * waiters and no owner.  However, second and third wake-ups
-		 * cannot be predicted as they involve race conditions with the
-		 * first wake and a fault while looking up the pi_state.  Both
-		 * pthread_cond_signal() and pthread_cond_broadcast() should
-		 * use nr_wake=1.
+		 * futex_requeue() allows the caller to define the number
+		 * of waiters to wake up via the @nr_wake argument. With
+		 * REQUEUE_PI waking up more than one waiter is creating
+		 * more problems than it solves. Waking up a waiter makes
+		 * only sense if the PI futex @uaddr2 is uncontended as
+		 * this allows the requeue code to acquire the futex
+		 * @uaddr2 before waking the waiter. The waiter can then
+		 * return to user space without further action. A secondary
+		 * wakeup would just make the futex_wait_requeue_pi()
+		 * handling more complex because that code would have to
+		 * look up pi_state and do more or less all the handling
+		 * which the requeue code has to do for the to be requeued
+		 * waiters. So restrict the number of waiters to wake to
+		 * one and only wake it up when the PI futex is
+		 * uncontended. Otherwise requeue it and let the unlock of
+		 * the PI futex handle the wakeup.
+		 *
+		 * All REQUEUE_PI users, e.g. pthread_cond_signal() and
+		 * pthread_cond_broadcast() must use nr_wake=1.
 		 */
 		if (nr_wake != 1)
 			return -EINVAL;