Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] inotify: Deal with nested sleeps

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Aug 05 2014 - 03:28:34 EST


On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:22:11AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> I don't think this one needs nested sleeps.
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> index cc423a3..1ca5888 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> @@ -233,15 +233,16 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> group = file->private_data;
>
> while (1) {
> + mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
> prepare_to_wait(&group->notification_waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> - mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
> kevent = get_one_event(group, count);
> mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);
>
> pr_debug("%s: group=%p kevent=%p\n", __func__, group, kevent);
>
> if (kevent) {
> + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> ret = PTR_ERR(kevent);
> if (IS_ERR(kevent))
> break;

Yeah, that'll probably work, but I'm not sure this the place to be
creative like that though. But whatever the inotify people prefer
really.
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