Re: [patch 1/3] timerfd: Implement show_fdinfo method

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Tue Apr 08 2014 - 02:18:11 EST


Hi Cyrill,

On 04/07/2014 09:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> For checkpoint/restore of timerfd files we need to know how exactly
> the timer were armed to be able to handle it. Thus implement show_fdinfo
> method which provides enough information for timer re-creation.
>
> One of significant changes I think is addition of
> timerfd_ctx::settime_flags member. Currently there are
> two flags TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME and TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET,
> and the second can be found from @might_cancel variable
> but in case if the flags will be extended in future we
> most probably will have to somehow remember them explicitly
> anyway so I guss doing that right now won't hurt.
>
> To not bloat the timerfd_ctx structure I've converted
> @expired to short integer and defined @settime_flags
> as short as well.
>
> v2 (by avagin@, vdavydov@ and tglx@):
>
> - Add it_value/it_interval fields
> - Save flags being used in timerfd_setup in context
>
> CC: Shawn Landden <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/timerfd.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/timerfd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/timerfd.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/fs/timerfd.c
> @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ struct timerfd_ctx {
> ktime_t moffs;
> wait_queue_head_t wqh;
> u64 ticks;
> - int expired;
> int clockid;
> + short unsigned expired;
> + short unsigned settime_flags; /* to show in fdinfo */
> struct rcu_head rcu;
> struct list_head clist;
> bool might_cancel;
> @@ -196,6 +197,8 @@ static int timerfd_setup(struct timerfd_
> if (timerfd_canceled(ctx))
> return -ECANCELED;
> }
> +
> + ctx->settime_flags = flags & TFD_SETTIME_FLAGS;
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -284,11 +287,36 @@ static ssize_t timerfd_read(struct file
> return res;
> }
>
> +static int timerfd_show(struct seq_file *m, struct file *file)
> +{
> + struct timerfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
> + struct itimerspec t;
> +
> + spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
> + t.it_value = ktime_to_timespec(timerfd_get_remaining(ctx));
> + t.it_interval = ktime_to_timespec(ctx->tintv);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
> +
> + return seq_printf(m,
> + "clockid: %d\n"
> + "ticks: %llu\n"
> + "settime flags: 0%o\n"
> + "it_value: (%llu, %llu)\n"
> + "it_interval: (%llu, %llu)\n",

IMO, one would expect to setup the timer on restore by passing the
values of settime_flags, it_value, and it_interval obtained from the
fdinfo to sys_timerfd_settime, but this will be incorrect, because AFAIU
the it_value you report here is always relative to the current time, no
matter whether TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME was set in settime_flags or not. Is it OK?

Thanks.

> + ctx->clockid, (unsigned long long)ctx->ticks,
> + ctx->settime_flags,
> + (unsigned long long)t.it_value.tv_sec,
> + (unsigned long long)t.it_value.tv_nsec,
> + (unsigned long long)t.it_interval.tv_sec,
> + (unsigned long long)t.it_interval.tv_nsec);
> +}
> +
> static const struct file_operations timerfd_fops = {
> .release = timerfd_release,
> .poll = timerfd_poll,
> .read = timerfd_read,
> .llseek = noop_llseek,
> + .show_fdinfo = timerfd_show,
> };
>
> static int timerfd_fget(int fd, struct fd *p)
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