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<title>treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T21:43:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T16:55:00+00:00</published>
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>epoll: simplify ep_alloc()</title>
<updated>2023-07-26T12:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhen Lei</name>
<email>thunder.leizhen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-26T03:21:35+00:00</published>
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The get_current_user() does not fail, and moving it after kzalloc() can
simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230726032135.933-1-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The get_current_user() does not fail, and moving it after kzalloc() can
simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230726032135.933-1-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.5/vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T16:50:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T16:50:21+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual fs

  Features:

   - Use mode 0600 for file created by cachefilesd so it can be run by
     unprivileged users. This aligns them with directories which are
     already created with mode 0700 by cachefilesd

   - Reorder a few members in struct file to prevent some false sharing
     scenarios

   - Indicate that an eventfd is used a semaphore in the eventfd's
     fdinfo procfs file

   - Add a missing uapi header for eventfd exposing relevant uapi
     defines

   - Let the VFS protect transitions of a superblock from read-only to
     read-write in addition to the protection it already provides for
     transitions from read-write to read-only. Protecting read-only to
     read-write transitions allows filesystems such as ext4 to perform
     internal writes, keeping writers away until the transition is
     completed

  Cleanups:

   - Arnd removed the architecture specific arch_report_meminfo()
     prototypes and added a generic one into procfs.h. Note, we got a
     report about a warning in amdpgpu codepaths that suggested this was
     bisectable to this change but we concluded it was a false positive

   - Remove unused parameters from split_fs_names()

   - Rename put_and_unmap_page() to unmap_and_put_page() to let the name
     reflect the order of the cleanup operation that has to unmap before
     the actual put

   - Unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback() as it is not used outside
     of block device aops

   - Stop allocating aio rings from highmem

   - Protecting read-{only,write} transitions in the VFS used open-coded
     barriers in various places. Replace them with proper little helpers
     and document both the helpers and all barrier interactions involved
     when transitioning between read-{only,write} states

   - Use flexible array members in old readdir codepaths

  Fixes:

   - Use the correct type __poll_t for epoll and eventfd

   - Replace all deprecated strlcpy() invocations, whose return value
     isn't checked with an equivalent strscpy() call

   - Fix some kernel-doc warnings in fs/open.c

   - Reduce the stack usage in jffs2's xattr codepaths finally getting
     rid of this: fs/jffs2/xattr.c:887:1: error: the frame size of 1088
     bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
     royally annoying compilation warning

   - Use __FMODE_NONOTIFY instead of FMODE_NONOTIFY where an int and not
     fmode_t is required to avoid fmode_t to integer degradation
     warnings

   - Create coredumps with O_WRONLY instead of O_RDWR. There's a long
     explanation in that commit how O_RDWR is actually a bug which we
     found out with the help of Linus and git archeology

   - Fix "no previous prototype" warnings in the pipe codepaths

   - Add overflow calculations for remap_verify_area() as a signed
     addition overflow could be triggered in xfstests

   - Fix a null pointer dereference in sysv

   - Use an unsigned variable for length calculations in jfs avoiding
     compilation warnings with gcc 13

   - Fix a dangling pipe pointer in the watch queue codepath

   - The legacy mount option parser provided as a fallback by the VFS
     for filesystems not yet converted to the new mount api did prefix
     the generated mount option string with a leading ',' causing issues
     for some filesystems

   - Fix a repeated word in a comment in fs.h

   - autofs: Update the ctime when mtime is updated as mandated by
     POSIX"

* tag 'v6.5/vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  readdir: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
  fs: Provide helpers for manipulating sb-&gt;s_readonly_remount
  fs: Protect reconfiguration of sb read-write from racing writes
  eventfd: add a uapi header for eventfd userspace APIs
  autofs: set ctime as well when mtime changes on a dir
  eventfd: show the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag in fdinfo
  fs/aio: Stop allocating aio rings from HIGHMEM
  fs: Fix comment typo
  fs: unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback
  fs: avoid empty option when generating legacy mount string
  watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer
  fs.h: Optimize file struct to prevent false sharing
  highmem: Rename put_and_unmap_page() to unmap_and_put_page()
  cachefiles: Allow the cache to be non-root
  init: remove unused names parameter in split_fs_names()
  jfs: Use unsigned variable for length calculations
  fs/sysv: Null check to prevent null-ptr-deref bug
  fs: use UB-safe check for signed addition overflow in remap_verify_area
  procfs: consolidate arch_report_meminfo declaration
  fs: pipe: reveal missing function protoypes
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual fs

  Features:

   - Use mode 0600 for file created by cachefilesd so it can be run by
     unprivileged users. This aligns them with directories which are
     already created with mode 0700 by cachefilesd

   - Reorder a few members in struct file to prevent some false sharing
     scenarios

   - Indicate that an eventfd is used a semaphore in the eventfd's
     fdinfo procfs file

   - Add a missing uapi header for eventfd exposing relevant uapi
     defines

   - Let the VFS protect transitions of a superblock from read-only to
     read-write in addition to the protection it already provides for
     transitions from read-write to read-only. Protecting read-only to
     read-write transitions allows filesystems such as ext4 to perform
     internal writes, keeping writers away until the transition is
     completed

  Cleanups:

   - Arnd removed the architecture specific arch_report_meminfo()
     prototypes and added a generic one into procfs.h. Note, we got a
     report about a warning in amdpgpu codepaths that suggested this was
     bisectable to this change but we concluded it was a false positive

   - Remove unused parameters from split_fs_names()

   - Rename put_and_unmap_page() to unmap_and_put_page() to let the name
     reflect the order of the cleanup operation that has to unmap before
     the actual put

   - Unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback() as it is not used outside
     of block device aops

   - Stop allocating aio rings from highmem

   - Protecting read-{only,write} transitions in the VFS used open-coded
     barriers in various places. Replace them with proper little helpers
     and document both the helpers and all barrier interactions involved
     when transitioning between read-{only,write} states

   - Use flexible array members in old readdir codepaths

  Fixes:

   - Use the correct type __poll_t for epoll and eventfd

   - Replace all deprecated strlcpy() invocations, whose return value
     isn't checked with an equivalent strscpy() call

   - Fix some kernel-doc warnings in fs/open.c

   - Reduce the stack usage in jffs2's xattr codepaths finally getting
     rid of this: fs/jffs2/xattr.c:887:1: error: the frame size of 1088
     bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
     royally annoying compilation warning

   - Use __FMODE_NONOTIFY instead of FMODE_NONOTIFY where an int and not
     fmode_t is required to avoid fmode_t to integer degradation
     warnings

   - Create coredumps with O_WRONLY instead of O_RDWR. There's a long
     explanation in that commit how O_RDWR is actually a bug which we
     found out with the help of Linus and git archeology

   - Fix "no previous prototype" warnings in the pipe codepaths

   - Add overflow calculations for remap_verify_area() as a signed
     addition overflow could be triggered in xfstests

   - Fix a null pointer dereference in sysv

   - Use an unsigned variable for length calculations in jfs avoiding
     compilation warnings with gcc 13

   - Fix a dangling pipe pointer in the watch queue codepath

   - The legacy mount option parser provided as a fallback by the VFS
     for filesystems not yet converted to the new mount api did prefix
     the generated mount option string with a leading ',' causing issues
     for some filesystems

   - Fix a repeated word in a comment in fs.h

   - autofs: Update the ctime when mtime is updated as mandated by
     POSIX"

* tag 'v6.5/vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  readdir: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
  fs: Provide helpers for manipulating sb-&gt;s_readonly_remount
  fs: Protect reconfiguration of sb read-write from racing writes
  eventfd: add a uapi header for eventfd userspace APIs
  autofs: set ctime as well when mtime changes on a dir
  eventfd: show the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag in fdinfo
  fs/aio: Stop allocating aio rings from HIGHMEM
  fs: Fix comment typo
  fs: unexport buffer_check_dirty_writeback
  fs: avoid empty option when generating legacy mount string
  watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer
  fs.h: Optimize file struct to prevent false sharing
  highmem: Rename put_and_unmap_page() to unmap_and_put_page()
  cachefiles: Allow the cache to be non-root
  init: remove unused names parameter in split_fs_names()
  jfs: Use unsigned variable for length calculations
  fs/sysv: Null check to prevent null-ptr-deref bug
  fs: use UB-safe check for signed addition overflow in remap_verify_area
  procfs: consolidate arch_report_meminfo declaration
  fs: pipe: reveal missing function protoypes
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>epoll: ep_autoremove_wake_function should use list_del_init_careful</title>
<updated>2023-06-12T18:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-30T18:32:28+00:00</published>
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autoremove_wake_function uses list_del_init_careful, so should epoll's
more aggressive variant.  It only doesn't because it was copied from an
older wait.c rather than the most recent.

[bsegall@google.com: add comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26bki0ulsr.fsf_-_@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26pm6hvfer.fsf@google.com
Fixes: a16ceb139610 ("epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively")
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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autoremove_wake_function uses list_del_init_careful, so should epoll's
more aggressive variant.  It only doesn't because it was copied from an
older wait.c rather than the most recent.

[bsegall@google.com: add comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26bki0ulsr.fsf_-_@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26pm6hvfer.fsf@google.com
Fixes: a16ceb139610 ("epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively")
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: use correct __poll_t type</title>
<updated>2023-05-15T07:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Min-Hua Chen</name>
<email>minhuadotchen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-11T16:46:25+00:00</published>
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Fix the following sparse warnings by using __poll_t instead
of unsigned type.

fs/eventpoll.c:541:9: sparse: warning: restricted __poll_t degrades to integer
fs/eventfd.c:67:17: sparse: warning: restricted __poll_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen &lt;minhuadotchen@gmail.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230511164628.336586-1-minhuadotchen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix the following sparse warnings by using __poll_t instead
of unsigned type.

fs/eventpoll.c:541:9: sparse: warning: restricted __poll_t degrades to integer
fs/eventfd.c:67:17: sparse: warning: restricted __poll_t degrades to integer

Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen &lt;minhuadotchen@gmail.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230511164628.336586-1-minhuadotchen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:57:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:57:00+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly singleton patches all over the place.

  Series of note are:

   - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn

   - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
  mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
  libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
  mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
  ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
  fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
  ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
  checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
  epoll: rename global epmutex
  scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
  scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
  uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
  delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
  scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
  scripts/gdb: print interrupts
  scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
  scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
  lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
  proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
  checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
  checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly singleton patches all over the place.

  Series of note are:

   - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn

   - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
  mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
  libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
  mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
  ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
  fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
  ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
  checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
  epoll: rename global epmutex
  scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
  scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
  uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
  delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
  scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
  scripts/gdb: print interrupts
  scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
  scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
  lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
  proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
  checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
  checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-04-25T19:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-25T19:22:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=53b5e72b9d89853b7e622239676163ede52acffe'/>
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Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are various cleanups, fixing a number of uapi header files to no
  longer reference CONFIG_* symbols, and one patch that introduces the
  new CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT symbol for architectures that provide working
  inb()/outb() macros, as a preparation for adding driver dependencies
  on those in the following release"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  Kconfig: introduce HAS_IOPORT option and select it as necessary
  scripts: Update the CONFIG_* ignore list in headers_install.sh
  pktcdvd: Remove CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE from uapi header
  Move bp_type_idx to include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
  Move ep_take_care_of_epollwakeup() to fs/eventpoll.c
  Move COMPAT_ATM_ADDPARTY to net/atm/svc.c
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<pre>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are various cleanups, fixing a number of uapi header files to no
  longer reference CONFIG_* symbols, and one patch that introduces the
  new CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT symbol for architectures that provide working
  inb()/outb() macros, as a preparation for adding driver dependencies
  on those in the following release"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  Kconfig: introduce HAS_IOPORT option and select it as necessary
  scripts: Update the CONFIG_* ignore list in headers_install.sh
  pktcdvd: Remove CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE from uapi header
  Move bp_type_idx to include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
  Move ep_take_care_of_epollwakeup() to fs/eventpoll.c
  Move COMPAT_ATM_ADDPARTY to net/atm/svc.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>epoll: rename global epmutex</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T23:39:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-11T23:41:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d4cb626d6f3e86121e08ce1492836f37f91858dd'/>
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As of 4f04cbaf128 ("epoll: use refcount to reduce ep_mutex contention"),
this lock is now specific to nesting cases - inserting an epoll fd onto
another epoll fd.  Rename the lock to be less generic.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230411234159.20421-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As of 4f04cbaf128 ("epoll: use refcount to reduce ep_mutex contention"),
this lock is now specific to nesting cases - inserting an epoll fd onto
another epoll fd.  Rename the lock to be less generic.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230411234159.20421-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>epoll: use refcount to reduce ep_mutex contention</title>
<updated>2023-04-08T20:45:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-22T16:57:02+00:00</published>
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We are observing huge contention on the epmutex during an http
connection/rate test:

 83.17% 0.25%  nginx            [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
[...]
           |--66.96%--__fput
                      |--60.04%--eventpoll_release_file
                                 |--58.41%--__mutex_lock.isra.6
                                           |--56.56%--osq_lock

The application is multi-threaded, creates a new epoll entry for
each incoming connection, and does not delete it before the
connection shutdown - that is, before the connection's fd close().

Many different threads compete frequently for the epmutex lock,
affecting the overall performance.

To reduce the contention this patch introduces explicit reference counting
for the eventpoll struct. Each registered event acquires a reference,
and references are released at ep_remove() time.

The eventpoll struct is released by whoever - among EP file close() and
and the monitored file close() drops its last reference.

Additionally, this introduces a new 'dying' flag to prevent races between
the EP file close() and the monitored file close().
ep_eventpoll_release() marks, under f_lock spinlock, each epitem as dying
before removing it, while EP file close() does not touch dying epitems.

The above is needed as both close operations could run concurrently and
drop the EP reference acquired via the epitem entry. Without the above
flag, the monitored file close() could reach the EP struct via the epitem
list while the epitem is still listed and then try to put it after its
disposal.

An alternative could be avoiding touching the references acquired via
the epitems at EP file close() time, but that could leave the EP struct
alive for potentially unlimited time after EP file close(), with nasty
side effects.

With all the above in place, we can drop the epmutex usage at disposal time.

Overall this produces a significant performance improvement in the
mentioned connection/rate scenario: the mutex operations disappear from
the topmost offenders in the perf report, and the measured connections/rate
grows by ~60%.

To make the change more readable this additionally renames ep_free() to
ep_clear_and_put(), and moves the actual memory cleanup in a separate
ep_free() helper.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a57788dcaf28f5eb4f8dfddcc3a8b172a7357bb.1679504153.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xiumei Mu &lt;xmu@redhiat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We are observing huge contention on the epmutex during an http
connection/rate test:

 83.17% 0.25%  nginx            [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
[...]
           |--66.96%--__fput
                      |--60.04%--eventpoll_release_file
                                 |--58.41%--__mutex_lock.isra.6
                                           |--56.56%--osq_lock

The application is multi-threaded, creates a new epoll entry for
each incoming connection, and does not delete it before the
connection shutdown - that is, before the connection's fd close().

Many different threads compete frequently for the epmutex lock,
affecting the overall performance.

To reduce the contention this patch introduces explicit reference counting
for the eventpoll struct. Each registered event acquires a reference,
and references are released at ep_remove() time.

The eventpoll struct is released by whoever - among EP file close() and
and the monitored file close() drops its last reference.

Additionally, this introduces a new 'dying' flag to prevent races between
the EP file close() and the monitored file close().
ep_eventpoll_release() marks, under f_lock spinlock, each epitem as dying
before removing it, while EP file close() does not touch dying epitems.

The above is needed as both close operations could run concurrently and
drop the EP reference acquired via the epitem entry. Without the above
flag, the monitored file close() could reach the EP struct via the epitem
list while the epitem is still listed and then try to put it after its
disposal.

An alternative could be avoiding touching the references acquired via
the epitems at EP file close() time, but that could leave the EP struct
alive for potentially unlimited time after EP file close(), with nasty
side effects.

With all the above in place, we can drop the epmutex usage at disposal time.

Overall this produces a significant performance improvement in the
mentioned connection/rate scenario: the mutex operations disappear from
the topmost offenders in the perf report, and the measured connections/rate
grows by ~60%.

To make the change more readable this additionally renames ep_free() to
ep_clear_and_put(), and moves the actual memory cleanup in a separate
ep_free() helper.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a57788dcaf28f5eb4f8dfddcc3a8b172a7357bb.1679504153.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xiumei Mu &lt;xmu@redhiat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventpoll: align comment with nested epoll limitation</title>
<updated>2023-03-13T09:33:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changcheng Liu</name>
<email>changchengx.liu@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-12T09:25:22+00:00</published>
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fix comment in commit 02edc6fc4d5f ("epoll: comment the funky #ifdef")

Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng &lt;changchengx.liu@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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fix comment in commit 02edc6fc4d5f ("epoll: comment the funky #ifdef")

Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng &lt;changchengx.liu@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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