Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull proc and exec work for 5.7-rc1

[Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>]

On 4/5/20 4:42 AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 4/3/20 10:28 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:02 PM Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> So in term of priority, my current thinking is
>>>
>>>     upgrading unfair reader > unfair reader > reader/writer
>>>
>>> A higher priority locker will block other lockers from acquiring the lock.
>> An alternative option might be to have readers normally be 100% normal
>> (ie with fairness wrt writers), and not really introduce any special
>> "unfair reader" lock.
> A regular down_read() caller will be handled normally.
>> Instead, all the unfairness would come into play only when the special
>> case - execve() - does it's special "lock for reading with intent to
>> upgrade".
>>
>> But when it enters that kind of "intent to upgrade" lock state, it
>> would not only block all subsequent writers, it would also guarantee
>> that all other readers can continue to go).
> 
> Yes, that shouldn't be hard to do. If that is what is required, we may
> only need a special upgrade function to drain the OSQ and then wake up
> all the readers in the wait queue. I will add a flags argument to that
> special upgrade function so that we may be able to select different
> behavior in the future.
> 
> The regular down_read_interruptible() can be used unless we want to
> designate only some readers are allowed to do upgrade by calling a
> special down_read() function.
>>
>> So then the new rwsem operations would be
>>
>>  - read_with_write_intent_lock_interruptible()
>>
>>    This is the beginning of "execve()", and waits for all writers to
>> exit, and puts the lock into "all readers can go" mode.
>>
>>    You could think of it as a "I'm queuing myself for a write lock,
>> but I'm allowing readers to go ahead" state.
>>
>>  - read_lock_to_write_upgrade()
>>
>>    This is the "now this turns into a regular write lock". It needs to
>> wait for all other readers to exit, of course.
>>
>>  - read_with_write_intent_unlock()
>>
>>    This is the "I'm unqueuing myself, I aborted and will not become a
>> write lock after all" operation.
>>
>> NOTE! In this model, there may be multiple threads that do that
>> initial queuing thing. We only guarantee that only one of them will
>> get to the actual write lock stage, and the others will abort before
>> that happens.
>>
>> If that is a more natural state machine, then that should work fine
>> too. And it has some advantages, in that it keeps the readers normally
>> fair, and only turns them unfair when we get to that special
>> read-for-write stage.
>>
>> But whatever it most natural for the rwsem code. Entirely up to you.
> 
> To be symmetric with the existing downgrade_write() function, I will
> choose the name upgrade_read() for the upgrade function.
> 
> Will that work for you?
> 

May I ask, if the proposed rwsem will also work for RT-linux,
or will it be a normal mutex there?


Thanks
Bernd.


> Cheers,
> Longman
>