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Davidlohr Bueso c5a282e963 fs/epoll: reduce the scope of wq lock in epoll_wait()
This patch aims at reducing ep wq.lock hold times in epoll_wait(2).  For
the blocking case, there is no need to constantly take and drop the
spinlock, which is only needed to manipulate the waitqueue.

The call to ep_events_available() is now lockless, and only exposed to
benign races.  Here, if false positive (returns available events and
does not see another thread deleting an epi from the list) we call into
send_events and then the list's state is correctly seen.  Otoh, if a
false negative and we don't see a list_add_tail(), for example, from irq
callback, then it is rechecked again before blocking, which will see the
correct state.

In order for more accuracy to see concurrent list_del_init(), use the
list_empty_careful() variant -- of course, this won't be safe against
insertions from wakeup.

For the overflow list we obviously need to prevent load/store tearing as
we don't want to see partial values while the ready list is disabled.

[dave@stgolabs.net: forgotten fixlets]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109155258.jxcr4t2pnz6zqct3@linux-r8p5
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108051006.18751-6-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
arch fls: change parameter to unsigned int 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
block for-4.21/block-20190102 2019-01-02 18:49:58 -08:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: don't use "extern" with function prototypes 2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
drivers drivers/firmware/memmap.c: modify memblock_alloc to memblock_alloc_nopanic 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
firmware firmware: refactor firmware/Makefile 2018-12-23 10:10:32 +09:00
fs fs/epoll: reduce the scope of wq lock in epoll_wait() 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
include lib/genalloc.c: fix allocation of aligned buffer from non-aligned chunk 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
init Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux 2018-12-28 20:08:34 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel kernel/hung_task.c: break RCU locks based on jiffies 2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
lib lib/genalloc.c: use vzalloc_node() to allocate the bitmap 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm block: don't use un-ordered __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) 2019-01-02 10:46:03 -08:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 4.21 2019-01-02 16:35:23 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 09:48:13 -08:00
scripts checkpatch: warn on const char foo[] = "bar"; declarations 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
security Merge branch 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 11:05:43 -08:00
sound xen: features and fixes for 4.21 2018-12-26 11:35:07 -08:00
tools fls: change parameter to unsigned int 2019-01-04 13:13:46 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap Merge tag 'nand/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next 2018-12-18 19:59:16 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: remove unused cmd_gentimeconst 2018-12-25 00:10:30 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-linus-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2019-01-02 18:39:22 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 12:03:17 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.