linux/kernel/sched
NeilBrown c1221321b7 sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
It is currently not possible for various wait_on_bit functions
to implement a timeout.

While the "action" function that is called to do the waiting
could certainly use schedule_timeout(), there is no way to carry
forward the remaining timeout after a false wake-up.
As false-wakeups a clearly possible at least due to possible
hash collisions in bit_waitqueue(), this is a real problem.

The 'action' function is currently passed a pointer to the word
containing the bit being waited on.  No current action functions
use this pointer.  So changing it to something else will be a
little noisy but will have no immediate effect.

This patch changes the 'action' function to take a pointer to
the "struct wait_bit_key", which contains a pointer to the word
containing the bit so nothing is really lost.

It also adds a 'private' field to "struct wait_bit_key", which
is initialized to zero.

An action function can now implement a timeout with something
like

static int timed_out_waiter(struct wait_bit_key *key)
{
	unsigned long waited;
	if (key->private == 0) {
		key->private = jiffies;
		if (key->private == 0)
			key->private -= 1;
	}
	waited = jiffies - key->private;
	if (waited > 10 * HZ)
		return -EAGAIN;
	schedule_timeout(waited - 10 * HZ);
	return 0;
}

If any other need for context in a waiter were found it would be
easy to use ->private for some other purpose, or even extend
"struct wait_bit_key".

My particular need is to support timeouts in nfs_release_page()
to avoid deadlocks with loopback mounted NFS.

While wait_on_bit_timeout() would be a cleaner interface, it
will not meet my need.  I need the timeout to be sensitive to
the state of the connection with the server, which could change.
 So I need to use an 'action' interface.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051604.28027.41257.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16 15:10:41 +02:00
..
auto_group.c sched: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE 2014-02-22 18:15:54 +01:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
completion.c sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c 2013-11-06 07:49:19 +01:00
core.c sched: Fix static_key race with sched_feat() 2014-07-16 13:38:21 +02:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: remove css_parent() 2014-05-16 13:22:48 -04:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier 2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpudeadline.h sched/deadline: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:28 +02:00
cpupri.c Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error 2014-06-12 13:46:37 +02:00
cpupri.h sched/cpupri: Replace NR_CPUS arrays 2014-05-22 10:21:29 +02:00
cputime.c sched: Sanitize irq accounting madness 2014-05-07 11:51:30 +02:00
deadline.c sched/rt: Fix replenish_dl_entity() comments to match the current upstream code 2014-07-16 13:38:20 +02:00
debug.c Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-04-03 13:05:42 -07:00
fair.c sched/numa: Revert "Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads" 2014-07-16 13:38:23 +02:00
features.h sched: Rename capacity related flags 2014-06-05 11:52:32 +02:00
idle_task.c sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr() 2014-07-16 13:38:19 +02:00
idle.c sched/idle: Drop !! while calculating 'broadcast' 2014-07-05 11:17:31 +02:00
Makefile sched/idle: Move cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c 2014-02-11 09:58:30 +01:00
proc.c sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline 2013-06-27 10:07:44 +02:00
rt.c sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr() 2014-07-16 13:38:19 +02:00
sched.h sched: Remove extra static_key*() function indirection 2014-07-16 13:38:20 +02:00
stats.c kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched, nohz: Change rq->nr_running to always use wrappers 2014-05-22 11:16:33 +02:00
wait.c sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout 2014-07-16 15:10:41 +02:00