sched/wait: Provide infrastructure to deal with nested blocking
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:18:47 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:55:15 +0000 (10:55 +0100)
There are a few places that call blocking primitives from wait loops,
provide infrastructure to support this without the typical
task_struct::state collision.

We record the wakeup in wait_queue_t::flags which leaves
task_struct::state free to be used by others.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: ilya.dryomov@inktank.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140924082242.051202318@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/wait.h
kernel/sched/wait.c

index e4a8eb9312eabb508c045b8e0274ae7dd3809a38..fc0e99395fbb3671bbc6ba2f29ae69263e224aaa 100644 (file)
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ typedef struct __wait_queue wait_queue_t;
 typedef int (*wait_queue_func_t)(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int flags, void *key);
 int default_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int flags, void *key);
 
+/* __wait_queue::flags */
+#define WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE      0x01
+#define WQ_FLAG_WOKEN          0x02
+
 struct __wait_queue {
        unsigned int            flags;
-#define WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE      0x01
        void                    *private;
        wait_queue_func_t       func;
        struct list_head        task_list;
@@ -830,6 +833,8 @@ void prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int sta
 long prepare_to_wait_event(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int state);
 void finish_wait(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait);
 void abort_exclusive_wait(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned int mode, void *key);
+long wait_woken(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, long timeout);
+int woken_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key);
 int autoremove_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key);
 int wake_bit_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key);
 
index 5a62915f47a88564f69a37abd8990db508a27661..4dae1885db6f40a5d54e730b66a20ac80a2d5970 100644 (file)
@@ -297,6 +297,67 @@ int autoremove_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(autoremove_wake_function);
 
+
+/*
+ * DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(wait, woken_wake_func);
+ *
+ * add_wait_queue(&wq, &wait);
+ * for (;;) {
+ *     if (condition)
+ *         break;
+ *
+ *     p->state = mode;                                condition = true;
+ *     smp_mb(); // A                          smp_wmb(); // C
+ *     if (!wait->flags & WQ_FLAG_WOKEN)       wait->flags |= WQ_FLAG_WOKEN;
+ *         schedule()                          try_to_wake_up();
+ *     p->state = TASK_RUNNING;                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *     wait->flags &= ~WQ_FLAG_WOKEN;          condition = true;
+ *     smp_mb() // B                           smp_wmb(); // C
+ *                                             wait->flags |= WQ_FLAG_WOKEN;
+ * }
+ * remove_wait_queue(&wq, &wait);
+ *
+ */
+long wait_woken(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, long timeout)
+{
+       set_current_state(mode); /* A */
+       /*
+        * The above implies an smp_mb(), which matches with the smp_wmb() from
+        * woken_wake_function() such that if we observe WQ_FLAG_WOKEN we must
+        * also observe all state before the wakeup.
+        */
+       if (!(wait->flags & WQ_FLAG_WOKEN))
+               timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
+       __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+
+       /*
+        * The below implies an smp_mb(), it too pairs with the smp_wmb() from
+        * woken_wake_function() such that we must either observe the wait
+        * condition being true _OR_ WQ_FLAG_WOKEN such that we will not miss
+        * an event.
+        */
+       set_mb(wait->flags, wait->flags & ~WQ_FLAG_WOKEN); /* B */
+
+       return timeout;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_woken);
+
+int woken_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key)
+{
+       /*
+        * Although this function is called under waitqueue lock, LOCK
+        * doesn't imply write barrier and the users expects write
+        * barrier semantics on wakeup functions.  The following
+        * smp_wmb() is equivalent to smp_wmb() in try_to_wake_up()
+        * and is paired with set_mb() in wait_woken().
+        */
+       smp_wmb(); /* C */
+       wait->flags |= WQ_FLAG_WOKEN;
+
+       return default_wake_function(wait, mode, sync, key);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(woken_wake_function);
+
 int wake_bit_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *arg)
 {
        struct wait_bit_key *key = arg;