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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	arnd@arndb.de, dbueso@suse.de, axboe@kernel.dk,
	dave@stgolabs.net, jbaron@akamai.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	omar.kilani@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pselect/etc semantics
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 21:03:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190530210318.dbappo23kdcysraw@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woi8rt96.fsf@xmission.com>

"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Frankly the only reason this appears to be worth touching is that we
> have a userspace regression.  Otherwise I would call the current
> behavior more correct and desirable than ignoring the signal longer.
> 
> If I am reading sitaution properly I suggest we go back to resoring the
> sigmask by hand in epoll_pwait, and put in a big fat comment about a
> silly userspace program depending on that behavior.
> 
> That will be easier to backport and it will just fix the regression and
> not overfix the problem for reasonable applications.

Fwiw, the cmogstored (userspace program which regressed) only
hit this regression in an obscure code path for tuning; that
code path probably sees no use outside of the test suite.

Add to that, cmogstored is an unofficial and optional component
to the obscure, largely-forgotten MogileFS.

Finally, the main users of cmogstored are on FreeBSD.  They
hit the kqueue+self-pipe code path instead of epoll_pwait.

I only used epoll_pwait on Linux since I figured I could save a
few bytes of memory by skipping eventfd/self-pipe...

Anyways, I updated cmogstored a few weeks back to call `note_run'
(the signal dispatcher) if epoll_pwait (wrapped by `mog_idleq_wait_intr')
returns 0 instead of -1 (EINTR) to workaround this kernel change:

https://bogomips.org/cmogstored-public/20190511075630.17811-1-e@80x24.org/

I could easily make a change to call `note_run' unconditionally
when `mog_idleq_wait_intr' returns, too.

But that said, there could be other users hitting the same
problem I did.  So maybe cmogstored's primary use on Linux these
days is finding regressions :>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22  3:21 [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask() Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 15:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 15:55   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 16:14     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 16:33       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23  9:03         ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:59           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:18             ` David Laight
2019-05-23 16:36               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-23 16:56                 ` David Laight
2019-05-23 18:06                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 20:41                     ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-23 21:06                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24  9:58                     ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:10                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:16                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 16:33                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 17:01                           ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-27 15:04                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-28 20:47                               ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:57                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 18:42                                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28  9:02                             ` David Laight
2019-05-28  9:12                             ` David Laight
2019-05-28 11:37                               ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-28 12:04                                 ` David Laight
2019-05-24 14:19                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:29                       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-24 14:51                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 13:29                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 14:59                     ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:09                       ` David Laight
2019-05-24 15:46                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 15:44                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-24 16:40                         ` David Laight
2019-05-23 14:33         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-22 22:18 ` Chris Down
2019-05-22 22:52   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-22 22:52     ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 16:11 ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-29 16:54   ` David Laight
2019-05-29 18:50     ` Eric Wong
2019-05-30  9:34       ` David Laight
2019-05-30 13:04       ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-29 16:56   ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 18:26   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-29 22:32   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30  1:54     ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 18:28       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 14:40     ` pselect/etc semantics (Was: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()) Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 18:37       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-30 13:01   ` pselect/etc semantics Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:18     ` David Laight
2019-05-30 16:13       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 15:38     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 15:48       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:59         ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-05-30 16:08       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 17:20         ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-30 16:22       ` David Laight
2019-05-30 15:57     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-30 21:03     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-06-04 13:41   ` [PATCH] signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-04 15:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-04 15:31       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-04 15:57       ` David Laight
2019-06-04 15:57         ` David Laight
2019-06-04 16:37     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-04 18:14       ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-06-04 18:35     ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 21:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-04 22:24       ` Eric Wong
2019-06-04 23:51       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-05  9:04         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  8:56       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  9:02       ` David Laight
2019-06-05  9:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05  9:58           ` David Laight
2019-06-05 15:58     ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] signal: simplify set_user_sigmask/restore_user_sigmask Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-05 15:58       ` [PATCH -mm 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06  0:14         ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06  1:06         ` kbuild test robot
2019-06-06  7:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06  7:30           ` Sedat Dilek
2019-06-05 17:24       ` [PATCH -mm 0/1] " Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06  9:05         ` David Laight
2019-06-06 11:05           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:29             ` David Laight
2019-06-06 12:41               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 13:23                 ` David Laight
2019-06-06 10:22         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 11:32       ` [PATCH -mm V2 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08     ` [PATCH 0/2] select: simplify the usage of restore_saved_sigmask_unless() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-06 14:08       ` [PATCH 1/2] select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 18:05         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-06 14:09       ` [PATCH 2/2] select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining() Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-07 21:39       ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:39         ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41         ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 22:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-07 22:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-10 16:22           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-10 21:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11  9:52               ` David Laight
2019-06-11 11:14                 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:55                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 12:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 12:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:24                     ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:24                       ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:35                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 13:35                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 13:39                         ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:39                           ` David Laight
2019-06-11 15:46                 ` David Laight
2019-06-11 15:46                   ` David Laight
2019-06-12 12:40                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 12:40                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 12:40                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:45                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 14:18                   ` David Laight
2019-06-12 15:11                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 15:11                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 15:37                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-12 15:37                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13  8:48                     ` David Laight
2019-06-13  8:48                       ` David Laight
2019-06-13  9:43                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13  9:43                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13 10:56                         ` David Laight
2019-06-13 10:56                           ` David Laight
2019-06-13 12:43                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-13 12:43                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-11 18:55               ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-06-11 19:02                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11 19:02                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12  8:39                 ` David Laight
2019-06-12 13:09                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:09                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-12 13:09                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41         ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] signal/kvm: Stop using sigprocmask in kvm_sigset_(activate|deactivate) Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:42         ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] signal: Always keep real_blocked in sync with blocked Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:42           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:42           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:43         ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] signal: Remove saved_sigmask Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:43           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:43           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:44         ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] signal: Remove the unnecessary restore_sigmask flag Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:44           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-07 21:44           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-06-11 18:58         ` [RFC PATCH 0/5]: Removing saved_sigmask Oleg Nesterov

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