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close(2) is a special case which guarantees a shallow kernel stack, making delegation to task_work machinery unnecessary. Said delegation is problematic as it involves atomic ops and interrupt masking trips, none of which are cheap on x86-64. Forcing close(2) to do it looks like an oversight in the original work. Moreover presence of CONFIG_RSEQ adds an additional overhead as fput() -> task_work_add(..., TWA_RESUME) -> set_notify_resume() makes the thread returning to userspace land in resume_user_mode_work(), where rseq_handle_notify_resume takes a SMAP round-trip if rseq is enabled for the thread (and it is by default with contemporary glibc). Sample result when benchmarking open1_processes -t 1 from will-it-scale (that's an open + close loop) + tmpfs on /tmp, running on the Sapphire Rapid CPU (ops/s): stock+RSEQ: 1329857 stock-RSEQ: 1421667 (+7%) patched: 1523521 (+14.5% / +7%) (with / without rseq) Patched result is the same regardless of rseq as the codepath is avoided. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.