[PATCH RESEND v2] fs/epoll: Remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll that in ET mode

From: hev
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 05:24:28 EST


From: Heiher <r@xxxxxx>

Take the case where we have:

t0
| (ew)
e0
| (et)
e1
| (lt)
s0

t0: thread 0
e0: epoll fd 0
e1: epoll fd 1
s0: socket fd 0
ew: epoll_wait
et: edge-trigger
lt: level-trigger

When s0 fires an event, e1 catches the event, and then e0 catches an event from
e1. After this, There is a thread t0 do epoll_wait() many times on e0, it should
only get one event in total, because e1 is a dded to e0 in edge-triggered mode.

This patch only allows the wakeup(&ep->poll_wait) in ep_scan_ready_list under
two conditions:

1. depth == 0.
2. There have event is added to ep->ovflist during processing.

Test code:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/epoll.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int sfd[2];
int efd[2];
struct epoll_event e;

if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sfd) < 0)
goto out;

efd[0] = epoll_create(1);
if (efd[0] < 0)
goto out;

efd[1] = epoll_create(1);
if (efd[1] < 0)
goto out;

e.events = EPOLLIN;
if (epoll_ctl(efd[1], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, sfd[0], &e) < 0)
goto out;

e.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET;
if (epoll_ctl(efd[0], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd[1], &e) < 0)
goto out;

if (write(sfd[1], "w", 1) != 1)
goto out;

if (epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0) != 1)
goto out;

if (epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0) != 0)
goto out;

close(efd[0]);
close(efd[1]);
close(sfd[0]);
close(sfd[1]);

return 0;

out:
return -1;
}

More tests:
https://github.com/heiher/epoll-wakeup

Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: hev <r@xxxxxx>
---
fs/eventpoll.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index c4159bcc05d9..fa71468dbd51 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -685,6 +685,9 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
if (!ep_locked)
mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, depth);

+ if (!depth || list_empty_careful(&ep->rdllist))
+ pwake++;
+
/*
* Steal the ready list, and re-init the original one to the
* empty list. Also, set ep->ovflist to NULL so that events
@@ -755,7 +758,7 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);

/* We have to call this outside the lock */
- if (pwake)
+ if (pwake == 2)
ep_poll_safewake(&ep->poll_wait);

return res;
--
2.23.0