From c37d49250a7b99912dad9c148a4ae9a8b1713ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:34:30 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock. The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for delegating the wakeup to another context. commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7 Author: Tom Zanussi Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700 relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers when a simple timer will do. Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub buffers to store the new data. By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use irq_work for deferred wake up of readers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Akash Goel Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/relay.h | 3 ++- kernel/relay.c | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/relay.h b/include/linux/relay.h index d7c8359693c6e1..61355f1cc1bf4f 100644 --- a/include/linux/relay.h +++ b/include/linux/relay.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include /* * Tracks changes to rchan/rchan_buf structs @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ struct rchan_buf size_t subbufs_consumed; /* count of sub-buffers consumed */ struct rchan *chan; /* associated channel */ wait_queue_head_t read_wait; /* reader wait queue */ - struct timer_list timer; /* reader wake-up timer */ + struct irq_work wakeup_work; /* reader wakeup */ struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ struct kref kref; /* channel buffer refcount */ struct page **page_array; /* array of current buffer pages */ diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c index d797502140b9a0..ff1fa65a80134b 100644 --- a/kernel/relay.c +++ b/kernel/relay.c @@ -328,13 +328,13 @@ static struct rchan_callbacks default_channel_callbacks = { /** * wakeup_readers - wake up readers waiting on a channel - * @data: contains the channel buffer + * @work: contains the channel buffer * - * This is the timer function used to defer reader waking. + * This is the function used to defer reader waking */ -static void wakeup_readers(unsigned long data) +static void wakeup_readers(struct irq_work *work) { - struct rchan_buf *buf = (struct rchan_buf *)data; + struct rchan_buf *buf = container_of(work, struct rchan_buf, wakeup_work); wake_up_interruptible(&buf->read_wait); } @@ -352,9 +352,10 @@ static void __relay_reset(struct rchan_buf *buf, unsigned int init) if (init) { init_waitqueue_head(&buf->read_wait); kref_init(&buf->kref); - setup_timer(&buf->timer, wakeup_readers, (unsigned long)buf); - } else - del_timer_sync(&buf->timer); + init_irq_work(&buf->wakeup_work, wakeup_readers); + } else { + irq_work_sync(&buf->wakeup_work); + } buf->subbufs_produced = 0; buf->subbufs_consumed = 0; @@ -486,7 +487,7 @@ static struct rchan_buf *relay_open_buf(struct rchan *chan, unsigned int cpu) static void relay_close_buf(struct rchan_buf *buf) { buf->finalized = 1; - del_timer_sync(&buf->timer); + irq_work_sync(&buf->wakeup_work); buf->chan->cb->remove_buf_file(buf->dentry); kref_put(&buf->kref, relay_remove_buf); } @@ -768,14 +769,15 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length) buf->early_bytes += buf->chan->subbuf_size - buf->padding[old_subbuf]; smp_mb(); - if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait)) + if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait)) { /* * Calling wake_up_interruptible() from here * will deadlock if we happen to be logging * from the scheduler (trying to re-grab * rq->lock), so defer it. */ - mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1); + irq_work_queue(&buf->wakeup_work); + } } old = buf->data;