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Message-ID: <20121231232424.GA24235@dcvr.yhbt.net>
Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:24:24 +0000
From:	Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@...e.edu>,
	"Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@...e.edu>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll: prevent missed events if _qproc is NULL

Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net> wrote:
> This patch seems to fix my issue with ppoll() being stuck on my
> SMP machine: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/70414

OK, it doesn't fix my issue, but it seems to make it harder-to-hit...

> The change to sock_poll_wait() in
> commit 626cf236608505d376e4799adb4f7eb00a8594af
>   (poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions)
> seems to have allowed additional cases where the SMP memory barrier
> is not issued before checking for readiness.
> 
> In my case, this affects the select()-family of functions
> which register descriptors once and set _qproc to NULL before
> checking events again (after poll_schedule_timeout() returns).
> The set_mb() barrier in poll_schedule_timeout() appears to be
> insufficient on my SMP x86-64 machine (as it's only an xchg()).
> 
> This may also be related to the epoll issue described by
> Andreas Voellmy in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/

However, I believe my patch will still fix Andreas' issue with epoll
due to how ep_modify() uses a NULL qproc when calling ->poll().

(I've never been able to reproduce Andreas' issue on my 4-core system,
 but he's been hitting it since 3.4 (at least))
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