[PATCH] aio: Use call_rcu() instead of synchronize_rcu() in kill_ioctx()

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Tue May 28 2013 - 17:26:36 EST


Just making ioctx shutdown asynchronous so as not to block io_destroy()
- and percpu refcounts for the ioctx are going to need a RCU barrier in
the same place anyways.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 7fe5bde..2bbcacf 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -141,9 +141,6 @@ static void aio_free_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
for (i = 0; i < ctx->nr_pages; i++)
put_page(ctx->ring_pages[i]);

- if (ctx->mmap_size)
- vm_munmap(ctx->mmap_base, ctx->mmap_size);
-
if (ctx->ring_pages && ctx->ring_pages != ctx->internal_pages)
kfree(ctx->ring_pages);
}
@@ -322,11 +319,6 @@ static void free_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)

aio_free_ring(ctx);

- spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
- BUG_ON(aio_nr - ctx->max_reqs > aio_nr);
- aio_nr -= ctx->max_reqs;
- spin_unlock(&aio_nr_lock);
-
pr_debug("freeing %p\n", ctx);

/*
@@ -435,17 +427,24 @@ static void kill_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
{
if (!atomic_xchg(&ctx->dead, 1)) {
hlist_del_rcu(&ctx->list);
- /* Between hlist_del_rcu() and dropping the initial ref */
- synchronize_rcu();

/*
- * We can't punt to workqueue here because put_ioctx() ->
- * free_ioctx() will unmap the ringbuffer, and that has to be
- * done in the original process's context. kill_ioctx_rcu/work()
- * exist for exit_aio(), as in that path free_ioctx() won't do
- * the unmap.
+ * It'd be more correct to do this in free_ioctx(), after all
+ * the outstanding kiocbs have finished - but by then io_destroy
+ * has already returned, so io_setup() could potentially return
+ * -EAGAIN with no ioctxs actually in use (as far as userspace
+ * could tell).
*/
- kill_ioctx_work(&ctx->rcu_work);
+ spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
+ BUG_ON(aio_nr - ctx->max_reqs > aio_nr);
+ aio_nr -= ctx->max_reqs;
+ spin_unlock(&aio_nr_lock);
+
+ if (ctx->mmap_size)
+ vm_munmap(ctx->mmap_base, ctx->mmap_size);
+
+ /* Between hlist_del_rcu() and dropping the initial ref */
+ call_rcu(&ctx->rcu_head, kill_ioctx_rcu);
}
}

@@ -495,10 +494,7 @@ void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
*/
ctx->mmap_size = 0;

- if (!atomic_xchg(&ctx->dead, 1)) {
- hlist_del_rcu(&ctx->list);
- call_rcu(&ctx->rcu_head, kill_ioctx_rcu);
- }
+ kill_ioctx(ctx);
}
}

--
1.8.2.1

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