Re: [PATCH 05/28] fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methods

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 12:32:36 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:40:09AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ->get_poll_head returns the waitqueue that the poll operation is going
> to sleep on. Note that this means we can only use a single waitqueue
> for the poll, unlike some current drivers that use two waitqueues for
> different events. But now that we have keyed wakeups and heavily use
> those for poll there aren't that many good reason left to keep the
> multiple waitqueues, and if there are any ->poll is still around, the
> driver just won't support aio poll.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D

> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 7 ++++++-
> Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
> fs/select.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
> include/linux/poll.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> index 220bba28f72b..6d227f9d7bd9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
> @@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ prototypes:
> ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
> int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
> __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
> + struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
> + __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
> long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
> @@ -470,7 +472,7 @@ prototypes:
> };
>
> locking rules:
> - All may block.
> + All except for ->poll_mask may block.
>
> ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
> implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
> @@ -498,6 +500,9 @@ in sys_read() and friends.
> the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the
> operation
>
> +->poll_mask can be called with or without the waitqueue lock for the waitqueue
> +returned from ->get_poll_head.
> +
> --------------------------- dquot_operations -------------------------------
> prototypes:
> int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> index f608180ad59d..50ee13563271 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> @@ -857,6 +857,8 @@ struct file_operations {
> ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
> int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
> __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
> + struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
> + __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
> long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
> @@ -901,6 +903,17 @@ otherwise noted.
> activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there
> is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls
>
> + get_poll_head: Returns the struct wait_queue_head that poll, select,
> + epoll or aio poll should wait on in case this instance only has single
> + waitqueue. Can return NULL to indicate polling is not supported,
> + or a POLL* value using the POLL_TO_PTR helper in case a grave error
> + occured and ->poll_mask shall not be called.
> +
> + poll_mask: return the mask of POLL* values describing the file descriptor
> + state. Called either before going to sleep on the waitqueue returned by
> + get_poll_head, or after it has been woken. If ->get_poll_head and
> + ->poll_mask are implemented ->poll does not need to be implement.
> +
> unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call.
>
> compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls
> diff --git a/fs/select.c b/fs/select.c
> index ba91103707ea..cc270d7f6192 100644
> --- a/fs/select.c
> +++ b/fs/select.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,34 @@
>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>
> +__poll_t vfs_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct *pt)
> +{
> + unsigned int events = poll_requested_events(pt);
> + struct wait_queue_head *head;
> +
> + if (unlikely(!file_can_poll(file)))
> + return DEFAULT_POLLMASK;
> +
> + if (file->f_op->poll)
> + return file->f_op->poll(file, pt);
> +
> + /*
> + * Only get the poll head and do the first mask check if we are actually
> + * going to sleep on this file:
> + */
> + if (pt && pt->_qproc) {
> + head = vfs_get_poll_head(file, events);
> + if (!head)
> + return DEFAULT_POLLMASK;
> + if (IS_ERR(head))
> + return PTR_TO_POLL(head);
> +
> + pt->_qproc(file, head, pt);
> + }
> +
> + return file->f_op->poll_mask(file, events);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_poll);
>
> /*
> * Estimate expected accuracy in ns from a timeval.
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 79c413985305..6ea2c0843bb1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1708,6 +1708,8 @@ struct file_operations {
> int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
> int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
> __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
> + struct wait_queue_head * (*get_poll_head)(struct file *, __poll_t);
> + __poll_t (*poll_mask) (struct file *, __poll_t);
> long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
> diff --git a/include/linux/poll.h b/include/linux/poll.h
> index 7e0fdcf905d2..42e8e8665fb0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/poll.h
> +++ b/include/linux/poll.h
> @@ -74,18 +74,37 @@ static inline void init_poll_funcptr(poll_table *pt, poll_queue_proc qproc)
> pt->_key = ~(__poll_t)0; /* all events enabled */
> }
>
> +/*
> + * ->get_poll_head can return a __poll_t in the PTR_ERR, use these macros
> + * to return the value and recover it. It takes care of the negation as
> + * well as off the annotations.
> + */
> +#define POLL_TO_PTR(mask) (ERR_PTR(-(__force int)(mask)))
> +#define PTR_TO_POLL(ptr) ((__force __poll_t)-PTR_ERR((ptr)))
> +
> static inline bool file_can_poll(struct file *file)
> {
> - return file->f_op->poll;
> + return file->f_op->poll ||
> + (file->f_op->get_poll_head && file->f_op->poll_mask);
> }
>
> -static inline __poll_t vfs_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct *pt)
> +static inline struct wait_queue_head *vfs_get_poll_head(struct file *file,
> + __poll_t events)
> {
> - if (unlikely(!file->f_op->poll))
> + if (unlikely(!file->f_op->get_poll_head || !file->f_op->poll_mask))
> + return NULL;
> + return file->f_op->get_poll_head(file, events);
> +}
> +
> +static inline __poll_t vfs_poll_mask(struct file *file, __poll_t events)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(!file->f_op->poll_mask))
> return DEFAULT_POLLMASK;
> - return file->f_op->poll(file, pt);
> + return file->f_op->poll_mask(file, events) & events;
> }
>
> +__poll_t vfs_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct *pt);
> +
> struct poll_table_entry {
> struct file *filp;
> __poll_t key;
> --
> 2.14.2
>