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* Add wait_on_atomic_t() and wake_up_atomic_t()David Howells2013-05-151-0/+88
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add wait_on_atomic_t() and wake_up_atomic_t() to indicate became-zero events on atomic_t types. This uses the bit-wake waitqueue table. The key is set to a value outside of the number of bits in a long so that wait_on_bit() won't be woken up accidentally. What I'm using this for is: in a following patch I add a counter to struct fscache_cookie to count the number of outstanding operations that need access to netfs data. The way this works is: (1) When a cookie is allocated, the counter is initialised to 1. (2) When an operation wants to access netfs data, it calls atomic_inc_unless() to increment the counter before it does so. If it was 0, then the counter isn't incremented, the operation isn't permitted to access the netfs data (which might by this point no longer exist) and the operation aborts in some appropriate manner. (3) When an operation finishes with the netfs data, it decrements the counter and if it reaches 0, calls wake_up_atomic_t() on it - the assumption being that it was the last blocker. (4) When a cookie is released, the counter is decremented and the releaser uses wait_on_atomic_t() to wait for the counter to become 0 - which should indicate no one is using the netfs data any longer. The netfs data can then be destroyed. There are some alternatives that I have thought of and that have been suggested by Tejun Heo: (A) Using wait_on_bit() to wait on a bit in the counter. This doesn't work because if that bit happens to be 0 then the wait won't happen - even if the counter is non-zero. (B) Using wait_on_bit() to wait on a flag elsewhere which is cleared when the counter reaches 0. Such a flag would be redundant and would add complexity. (C) Adding a waitqueue to fscache_cookie - this would expand that struct by several words for an event that happens just once in each cookie's lifetime. Further, cookies are generally per-file so there are likely to be a lot of them. (D) Similar to (C), but add a pointer to a waitqueue in the cookie instead of a waitqueue. This would add single word per cookie and so would be less of an expansion - but still an expansion. (E) Adding a static waitqueue to the fscache module. Generally this would be fine, but under certain circumstances many cookies will all get added at the same time (eg. NFS umount, cache withdrawal) thereby presenting scaling issues. Note that the wait may be significant as disk I/O may be in progress. So, I think reusing the wait_on_bit() waitqueue set is reasonable. I don't make much use of the waitqueue I need on a per-cookie basis, but sometimes I have a huge flood of the cookies to deal with. I also don't want to add a whole new set of global waitqueue tables specifically for the dec-to-0 event if I can reuse the bit tables. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-By: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
* propagate name change to comments in kernel sourceNadia Yvette Chambers2012-12-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well. Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* lockdep/waitqueues: Add better annotationPeter Zijlstra2011-12-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -> #2 (&tty->write_wait){-.-...}: is a lot more informative than: -> #2 (key#19){-.....}: Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8zpopbny51023rdb0qq67eye@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-311-1/+1
| | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbookRandy Dunlap2010-10-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Add more wait, wake, and completion interfaces to the device-drivers docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in the added files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classesPeter Zijlstra2009-08-101-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes when they are initialised from init_waitqueue_head(). This means that struct wait_queue::func functions can operate other waitqueues. This is used by CacheFiles to catch the page from a backing fs being unlocked and to wake up another thread to take a copy of it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Cc: torvalds@osdl.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <20090810113305.17284.81508.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* wait: don't use __wake_up_common()Johannes Weiner2009-04-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | '777c6c5 wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation' made __wake_up_common() global to be used from abort_exclusive_wait(). It was needed to do a wake-up with the waitqueue lock held while passing down a key to the wake-up function. Since '4ede816 epoll keyed wakeups: add __wake_up_locked_key() and __wake_up_sync_key()' there is an appropriate wrapper for this case: __wake_up_locked_key(). Use it here and make __wake_up_common() private to the scheduler again. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1239720785-19661-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvationJohannes Weiner2009-02-051-7/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished. Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone will ever wake up the next waiter. This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by waking up the next waiter. Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise. It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it. Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and __wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake up through the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* wait: kill is_sync_wait()Tejun Heo2008-10-161-12/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | is_sync_wait() is used to distinguish between sync and async waits. Basically sync waits are the ones initialized with init_waitqueue_entry() and async ones with init_waitqueue_func_entry(). The sync/async distinction is used only in prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]() and its only function is to skip setting the current task state if the wait is async. This has a few problems. * No one uses it. None of func_entry users use prepare_to_wait() functions, so the code path never gets executed. * The distinction is bogus. Maybe back when func_entry is used only by aio but it's now also used by epoll and in future possibly by 9p and poll/select. * Taking @state as argument and ignoring it silenly depending on how @wait is initialized is just a bad error-prone API. * It prevents func_entry waits from using wait->private for no good reason. This patch kills is_sync_wait() and the associated code paths from prepare_to_wait[_exclusive](). As there was no user of these code paths, this patch doesn't cause any behavior difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*Harvey Harrison2008-02-081-13/+13
| | | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* wait: Use TASK_NORMALMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-1/+1
| | | | | | Also move wake_up_locked() to be with the related functions Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head()Ingo Molnar2006-07-101-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | allyesconfig vmlinux size delta: text data bss dec filename 20736884 6073834 3075176 29885894 vmlinux.before 20721009 6073966 3075176 29870151 vmlinux.after ~18 bytes per callsite, 15K of text size (~0.1%) saved. (as an added bonus this also removes a lockdep annotation.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate waitqueuesIngo Molnar2006-07-031-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Create one lock class for all waitqueue locks in the kernel. Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+246
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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