[PATCH 2/3] epoll: ep->wq can be woken up unlocked in certain cases

[Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>]

Now ep->lock is responsible for wqueue serialization, thus if ep->lock
is taken on write path, wake_up_locked() can be invoked.

Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Max Neunhoeffer <max@arangodb.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Christopher Kohlhoff <chris.kohlhoff@clearpool.io>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index eee3c92a9ebf..6e218234bd4a 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static inline bool chain_epi_lockless(struct epitem *epi)
  * Another thing worth to mention is that ep_poll_callback() can be called
  * concurrently for the same @epi from different CPUs if poll table was inited
  * with several wait queues entries.  Plural wakeup from different CPUs of a
- * single wait queue is serialized by wq.lock, but the case when multiple wait
+ * single wait queue is serialized by ep->lock, but the case when multiple wait
  * queues are used should be detected accordingly.  This is detected using
  * cmpxchg() operation.
  */
@@ -1248,6 +1248,12 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, v
 				break;
 			}
 		}
+		/*
+		 * Since here we have the read lock (ep->lock) taken, plural
+		 * wakeup from different CPUs can occur, thus we call wake_up()
+		 * variant which implies its own lock on wqueue. All other paths
+		 * take write lock.
+		 */
 		wake_up(&ep->wq);
 	}
 	if (waitqueue_active(&ep->poll_wait))
@@ -1551,7 +1557,7 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, const struct epoll_event *event,
 
 		/* Notify waiting tasks that events are available */
 		if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq))
-			wake_up(&ep->wq);
+			wake_up_locked(&ep->wq);
 		if (waitqueue_active(&ep->poll_wait))
 			pwake++;
 	}
@@ -1657,7 +1663,7 @@ static int ep_modify(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi,
 
 			/* Notify waiting tasks that events are available */
 			if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq))
-				wake_up(&ep->wq);
+				wake_up_locked(&ep->wq);
 			if (waitqueue_active(&ep->poll_wait))
 				pwake++;
 		}
-- 
2.24.1