[PATCH v2] eventpoll: fix missing wakeup for ovflist in ep_poll_callback

From: Khazhismel Kumykov
Date: Fri Apr 24 2020 - 15:00:55 EST


In the event that we add to ovflist, before 339ddb53d373 we would be
woken up by ep_scan_ready_list, and did no wakeup in ep_poll_callback.
With that wakeup removed, if we add to ovflist here, we may never wake
up. Rather than adding back the ep_scan_ready_list wakeup - which was
resulting in unnecessary wakeups, trigger a wake-up in ep_poll_callback.

We noticed that one of our workloads was missing wakeups starting with
339ddb53d373 and upon manual inspection, this wakeup seemed missing to
me. With this patch added, we no longer see missing wakeups. I haven't
yet tried to make a small reproducer, but the existing kselftests in
filesystem/epoll passed for me with this patch.

Fixes: 339ddb53d373 ("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll")

Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiher <r@xxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: use if/elif instead of goto + cleanup suggested by Roman
fs/eventpoll.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 8c596641a72b..d6ba0e52439b 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1171,6 +1171,10 @@ static inline bool chain_epi_lockless(struct epitem *epi)
{
struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep;

+ /* Fast preliminary check */
+ if (epi->next != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR)
+ return false;
+
/* Check that the same epi has not been just chained from another CPU */
if (cmpxchg(&epi->next, EP_UNACTIVE_PTR, NULL) != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR)
return false;
@@ -1237,16 +1241,12 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, v
* chained in ep->ovflist and requeued later on.
*/
if (READ_ONCE(ep->ovflist) != EP_UNACTIVE_PTR) {
- if (epi->next == EP_UNACTIVE_PTR &&
- chain_epi_lockless(epi))
+ if (chain_epi_lockless(epi))
+ ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu(epi);
+ } else if (!ep_is_linked(epi)) {
+ /* In the usual case, add event to ready list. */
+ if (list_add_tail_lockless(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist))
ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu(epi);
- goto out_unlock;
- }
-
- /* If this file is already in the ready list we exit soon */
- if (!ep_is_linked(epi) &&
- list_add_tail_lockless(&epi->rdllink, &ep->rdllist)) {
- ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu(epi);
}

/*
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