eventpoll: fix missing wakeup for ovflist in ep_poll_callback
authorKhazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Fri, 8 May 2020 01:35:59 +0000 (18:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 May 2020 02:27:20 +0000 (19:27 -0700)
commit0c54a6a44bf3d41e76ce3f583a6ece267618df2e
treeb16b25712931adde867ee34e1afbbd48b450cc79
parent996ed22c7a5251d76dcdfe5026ef8230e90066d9
eventpoll: fix missing wakeup for ovflist in ep_poll_callback

In the event that we add to ovflist, before commit 339ddb53d373
("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll") we would be
woken up by ep_scan_ready_list, and did no wakeup in ep_poll_callback.

With that wakeup removed, if we add to ovflist here, we may never wake
up.  Rather than adding back the ep_scan_ready_list wakeup - which was
resulting in unnecessary wakeups, trigger a wake-up in ep_poll_callback.

We noticed that one of our workloads was missing wakeups starting with
339ddb53d373 and upon manual inspection, this wakeup seemed missing to me.
With this patch added, we no longer see missing wakeups.  I haven't yet
tried to make a small reproducer, but the existing kselftests in
filesystem/epoll passed for me with this patch.

[khazhy@google.com: use if/elif instead of goto + cleanup suggested by Roman]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200424190039.192373-1-khazhy@google.com
Fixes: 339ddb53d373 ("fs/epoll: remove unnecessary wakeups of nested epoll")
Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200424025057.118641-1-khazhy@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/eventpoll.c