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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-07-07 15:16:04 +1000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-07-16 15:10:41 +0200
commitc1221321b7c25b53204447cff9949a6d5a7ddddc (patch)
treeb4dc6613ab838dcd71023f5f018306574fc2985a /kernel
parent743162013d40ca612b4cb53d3a200dff2d9ab26e (diff)
sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
It is currently not possible for various wait_on_bit functions to implement a timeout. While the "action" function that is called to do the waiting could certainly use schedule_timeout(), there is no way to carry forward the remaining timeout after a false wake-up. As false-wakeups a clearly possible at least due to possible hash collisions in bit_waitqueue(), this is a real problem. The 'action' function is currently passed a pointer to the word containing the bit being waited on. No current action functions use this pointer. So changing it to something else will be a little noisy but will have no immediate effect. This patch changes the 'action' function to take a pointer to the "struct wait_bit_key", which contains a pointer to the word containing the bit so nothing is really lost. It also adds a 'private' field to "struct wait_bit_key", which is initialized to zero. An action function can now implement a timeout with something like static int timed_out_waiter(struct wait_bit_key *key) { unsigned long waited; if (key->private == 0) { key->private = jiffies; if (key->private == 0) key->private -= 1; } waited = jiffies - key->private; if (waited > 10 * HZ) return -EAGAIN; schedule_timeout(waited - 10 * HZ); return 0; } If any other need for context in a waiter were found it would be easy to use ->private for some other purpose, or even extend "struct wait_bit_key". My particular need is to support timeouts in nfs_release_page() to avoid deadlocks with loopback mounted NFS. While wait_on_bit_timeout() would be a cleaner interface, it will not meet my need. I need the timeout to be sensitive to the state of the connection with the server, which could change. So I need to use an 'action' interface. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051604.28027.41257.stgit@notabene.brown Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/wait.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index a104879e88f2..15cab1a4f84e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -319,14 +319,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_bit_function);
*/
int __sched
__wait_on_bit(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
- int (*action)(void *), unsigned mode)
+ wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned mode)
{
int ret = 0;
do {
prepare_to_wait(wq, &q->wait, mode);
if (test_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags))
- ret = (*action)(q->key.flags);
+ ret = (*action)(&q->key);
} while (test_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags) && !ret);
finish_wait(wq, &q->wait);
return ret;
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ __wait_on_bit(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__wait_on_bit);
int __sched out_of_line_wait_on_bit(void *word, int bit,
- int (*action)(void *), unsigned mode)
+ wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned mode)
{
wait_queue_head_t *wq = bit_waitqueue(word, bit);
DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, word, bit);
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(out_of_line_wait_on_bit);
int __sched
__wait_on_bit_lock(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
- int (*action)(void *), unsigned mode)
+ wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned mode)
{
do {
int ret;
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ __wait_on_bit_lock(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wq, &q->wait, mode);
if (!test_bit(q->key.bit_nr, q->key.flags))
continue;
- ret = action(q->key.flags);
+ ret = action(&q->key);
if (!ret)
continue;
abort_exclusive_wait(wq, &q->wait, mode, &q->key);
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ __wait_on_bit_lock(wait_queue_head_t *wq, struct wait_bit_queue *q,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__wait_on_bit_lock);
int __sched out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock(void *word, int bit,
- int (*action)(void *), unsigned mode)
+ wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned mode)
{
wait_queue_head_t *wq = bit_waitqueue(word, bit);
DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, word, bit);
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ void wake_up_atomic_t(atomic_t *p)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_atomic_t);
-__sched int bit_wait(void *word)
+__sched int bit_wait(struct wait_bit_key *word)
{
if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
return 1;
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ __sched int bit_wait(void *word)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bit_wait);
-__sched int bit_wait_io(void *word)
+__sched int bit_wait_io(struct wait_bit_key *word)
{
if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
return 1;