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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [PATCHSET v2] Improve io_uring cancellations
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:32:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hot on the heels of v1, here's v2 of this patchset. Due to some
brainfart on my end, I forgot that we have the worker ref count
to prevent workers from going away. So we don't need the ->exiting
change from v1. The other two items were totally valid, however.
To summarize, they are:

- While the wqe->lock protects the stability of the worker->cur_work
  pointer, it does NOT stabilize the actual work item. For cancelling
  specific work, io_uring needs to dereference it to see if it matches.

- We're not consistent in comparing worker->cur_work and sending a
  signal to cancel it.

These three patches fix the above issues. The first is a prep patch that
adds referencing of work items, which makes it safe to dereference
->cur_work if we ensure that ->cur_work itself is stable. The second
closes the hole that currently exists with signaling specific work for
cancellation, and the last one closes a tiny hole where we might miss a
worker during list iteration.

Changes since v1:
- Get rid of ->exiting, we don't need it
- Add third patch on closing list iteration hole

 fs/io-wq.c    | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 fs/io-wq.h    |   7 +++-
 fs/io_uring.c |  17 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe




             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-13 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-13 21:32 Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-11-13 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] io_wq: add get/put_work handlers to io_wq_create() Jens Axboe
2019-11-13 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] io-wq: ensure we have a stable view of ->cur_work for cancellations Jens Axboe
2019-11-13 21:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] io-wq: ensure free/busy list browsing see all items Jens Axboe
2019-11-13 23:42   ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-14  2:51     ` Jens Axboe

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