[PATCH v4 02/27] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL.

From: Elizabeth Figura
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 21:15:13 EST


This is similar to NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY, but waits until all of the objects are
simultaneously signaled, and then acquires all of them as a single atomic
operation.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 243 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
index c6f84a5fc8c0..e914d626465a 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
@@ -55,7 +55,34 @@ struct ntsync_obj {
} sem;
} u;

+ /*
+ * any_waiters is protected by the object lock, but all_waiters is
+ * protected by the device wait_all_lock.
+ */
struct list_head any_waiters;
+ struct list_head all_waiters;
+
+ /*
+ * Hint describing how many tasks are queued on this object in a
+ * wait-all operation.
+ *
+ * Any time we do a wake, we may need to wake "all" waiters as well as
+ * "any" waiters. In order to atomically wake "all" waiters, we must
+ * lock all of the objects, and that means grabbing the wait_all_lock
+ * below (and, due to lock ordering rules, before locking this object).
+ * However, wait-all is a rare operation, and grabbing the wait-all
+ * lock for every wake would create unnecessary contention.
+ * Therefore we first check whether all_hint is zero, and, if it is,
+ * we skip trying to wake "all" waiters.
+ *
+ * This hint isn't protected by any lock. It might change during the
+ * course of a wake, but there's no meaningful race there; it's only a
+ * hint.
+ *
+ * Since wait requests must originate from user-space threads, we're
+ * limited here by PID_MAX_LIMIT, so there's no risk of overflow.
+ */
+ atomic_t all_hint;
};

struct ntsync_q_entry {
@@ -76,14 +103,100 @@ struct ntsync_q {
*/
atomic_t signaled;

+ bool all;
__u32 count;
struct ntsync_q_entry entries[];
};

struct ntsync_device {
+ /*
+ * Wait-all operations must atomically grab all objects, and be totally
+ * ordered with respect to each other and wait-any operations.
+ * If one thread is trying to acquire several objects, another thread
+ * cannot touch the object at the same time.
+ *
+ * We achieve this by grabbing multiple object locks at the same time.
+ * However, this creates a lock ordering problem. To solve that problem,
+ * wait_all_lock is taken first whenever multiple objects must be locked
+ * at the same time.
+ */
+ spinlock_t wait_all_lock;
+
struct file *file;
};

+static bool is_signaled(struct ntsync_obj *obj, __u32 owner)
+{
+ lockdep_assert_held(&obj->lock);
+
+ switch (obj->type) {
+ case NTSYNC_TYPE_SEM:
+ return !!obj->u.sem.count;
+ }
+
+ WARN(1, "bad object type %#x\n", obj->type);
+ return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * "locked_obj" is an optional pointer to an object which is already locked and
+ * should not be locked again. This is necessary so that changing an object's
+ * state and waking it can be a single atomic operation.
+ */
+static void try_wake_all(struct ntsync_device *dev, struct ntsync_q *q,
+ struct ntsync_obj *locked_obj)
+{
+ __u32 count = q->count;
+ bool can_wake = true;
+ int signaled = -1;
+ __u32 i;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+ if (locked_obj)
+ lockdep_assert_held(&locked_obj->lock);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (q->entries[i].obj != locked_obj)
+ spin_lock_nest_lock(&q->entries[i].obj->lock, &dev->wait_all_lock);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (!is_signaled(q->entries[i].obj, q->owner)) {
+ can_wake = false;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (can_wake && atomic_try_cmpxchg(&q->signaled, &signaled, 0)) {
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ struct ntsync_obj *obj = q->entries[i].obj;
+
+ switch (obj->type) {
+ case NTSYNC_TYPE_SEM:
+ obj->u.sem.count--;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ wake_up_process(q->task);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (q->entries[i].obj != locked_obj)
+ spin_unlock(&q->entries[i].obj->lock);
+ }
+}
+
+static void try_wake_all_obj(struct ntsync_device *dev, struct ntsync_obj *obj)
+{
+ struct ntsync_q_entry *entry;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+ lockdep_assert_held(&obj->lock);
+
+ list_for_each_entry(entry, &obj->all_waiters, node)
+ try_wake_all(dev, entry->q, obj);
+}
+
static void try_wake_any_sem(struct ntsync_obj *sem)
{
struct ntsync_q_entry *entry;
@@ -124,6 +237,7 @@ static int post_sem_state(struct ntsync_obj *sem, __u32 count)

static int ntsync_sem_post(struct ntsync_obj *sem, void __user *argp)
{
+ struct ntsync_device *dev = sem->dev;
__u32 __user *user_args = argp;
__u32 prev_count;
__u32 args;
@@ -135,14 +249,29 @@ static int ntsync_sem_post(struct ntsync_obj *sem, void __user *argp)
if (sem->type != NTSYNC_TYPE_SEM)
return -EINVAL;

- spin_lock(&sem->lock);
+ if (atomic_read(&sem->all_hint) > 0) {
+ spin_lock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+ spin_lock_nest_lock(&sem->lock, &dev->wait_all_lock);

- prev_count = sem->u.sem.count;
- ret = post_sem_state(sem, args);
- if (!ret)
- try_wake_any_sem(sem);
+ prev_count = sem->u.sem.count;
+ ret = post_sem_state(sem, args);
+ if (!ret) {
+ try_wake_all_obj(dev, sem);
+ try_wake_any_sem(sem);
+ }

- spin_unlock(&sem->lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sem->lock);
+ spin_unlock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+ } else {
+ spin_lock(&sem->lock);
+
+ prev_count = sem->u.sem.count;
+ ret = post_sem_state(sem, args);
+ if (!ret)
+ try_wake_any_sem(sem);
+
+ spin_unlock(&sem->lock);
+ }

if (!ret && put_user(prev_count, user_args))
ret = -EFAULT;
@@ -195,6 +324,8 @@ static struct ntsync_obj *ntsync_alloc_obj(struct ntsync_device *dev,
get_file(dev->file);
spin_lock_init(&obj->lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&obj->any_waiters);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&obj->all_waiters);
+ atomic_set(&obj->all_hint, 0);

return obj;
}
@@ -306,7 +437,7 @@ static int ntsync_schedule(const struct ntsync_q *q, const struct ntsync_wait_ar
* Allocate and initialize the ntsync_q structure, but do not queue us yet.
*/
static int setup_wait(struct ntsync_device *dev,
- const struct ntsync_wait_args *args,
+ const struct ntsync_wait_args *args, bool all,
struct ntsync_q **ret_q)
{
const __u32 count = args->count;
@@ -333,6 +464,7 @@ static int setup_wait(struct ntsync_device *dev,
q->task = current;
q->owner = args->owner;
atomic_set(&q->signaled, -1);
+ q->all = all;
q->count = count;

for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
@@ -342,6 +474,16 @@ static int setup_wait(struct ntsync_device *dev,
if (!obj)
goto err;

+ if (all) {
+ /* Check that the objects are all distinct. */
+ for (j = 0; j < i; j++) {
+ if (obj == q->entries[j].obj) {
+ put_obj(obj);
+ goto err;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
entry->obj = obj;
entry->q = q;
entry->index = i;
@@ -377,7 +519,7 @@ static int ntsync_wait_any(struct ntsync_device *dev, void __user *argp)
if (copy_from_user(&args, argp, sizeof(args)))
return -EFAULT;

- ret = setup_wait(dev, &args, &q);
+ ret = setup_wait(dev, &args, false, &q);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

@@ -439,6 +581,87 @@ static int ntsync_wait_any(struct ntsync_device *dev, void __user *argp)
return ret;
}

+static int ntsync_wait_all(struct ntsync_device *dev, void __user *argp)
+{
+ struct ntsync_wait_args args;
+ struct ntsync_q *q;
+ int signaled;
+ __u32 i;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&args, argp, sizeof(args)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ ret = setup_wait(dev, &args, true, &q);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* queue ourselves */
+
+ spin_lock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < args.count; i++) {
+ struct ntsync_q_entry *entry = &q->entries[i];
+ struct ntsync_obj *obj = entry->obj;
+
+ atomic_inc(&obj->all_hint);
+
+ /*
+ * obj->all_waiters is protected by dev->wait_all_lock rather
+ * than obj->lock, so there is no need to acquire obj->lock
+ * here.
+ */
+ list_add_tail(&entry->node, &obj->all_waiters);
+ }
+
+ /* check if we are already signaled */
+
+ try_wake_all(dev, q, NULL);
+
+ spin_unlock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+
+ /* sleep */
+
+ ret = ntsync_schedule(q, &args);
+
+ /* and finally, unqueue */
+
+ spin_lock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < args.count; i++) {
+ struct ntsync_q_entry *entry = &q->entries[i];
+ struct ntsync_obj *obj = entry->obj;
+
+ /*
+ * obj->all_waiters is protected by dev->wait_all_lock rather
+ * than obj->lock, so there is no need to acquire it here.
+ */
+ list_del(&entry->node);
+
+ atomic_dec(&obj->all_hint);
+
+ put_obj(obj);
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+
+ signaled = atomic_read(&q->signaled);
+ if (signaled != -1) {
+ struct ntsync_wait_args __user *user_args = argp;
+
+ /* even if we caught a signal, we need to communicate success */
+ ret = 0;
+
+ if (put_user(signaled, &user_args->index))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ } else if (!ret) {
+ ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
+ }
+
+ kfree(q);
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int ntsync_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct ntsync_device *dev;
@@ -447,6 +670,8 @@ static int ntsync_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;

+ spin_lock_init(&dev->wait_all_lock);
+
file->private_data = dev;
dev->file = file;
return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
@@ -470,6 +695,8 @@ static long ntsync_char_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
switch (cmd) {
case NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM:
return ntsync_create_sem(dev, argp);
+ case NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL:
+ return ntsync_wait_all(dev, argp);
case NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY:
return ntsync_wait_any(dev, argp);
default:
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h b/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h
index 60ad414b5552..83784d4438a1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct ntsync_wait_args {

#define NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM _IOWR('N', 0x80, struct ntsync_sem_args)
#define NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY _IOWR('N', 0x82, struct ntsync_wait_args)
+#define NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL _IOWR('N', 0x83, struct ntsync_wait_args)

#define NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST _IOWR('N', 0x81, __u32)

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2.43.0