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userfaultfd: wake pending userfaults
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2015 22:46:41 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerDhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:47:05 +0000 (13:47 -0500)
commited8c793c9b8b8a0d61e39b195790f299c5fdadec
tree6c462c4f58b1e62db40576a15cbdb1b68fa56d30
parentf4667fd80b34a1c90753ad89334732d3fa52b0f8
userfaultfd: wake pending userfaults

Orabug: 21685254

This is an optimization but it's a userland visible one and it affects
the API.

The downside of this optimization is that if you call poll() and you
get POLLIN, read(ufd) may still return -EAGAIN. The blocked userfault
may be waken by a different thread, before read(ufd) comes
around. This in short means that poll() isn't really usable if the
userfaultfd is opened in blocking mode.

userfaults won't wait in "pending" state to be read anymore and any
UFFDIO_WAKE or similar operations that has the objective of waking
userfaults after their resolution, will wake all blocked userfaults
for the resolved range, including those that haven't been read() by
userland yet.

The behavior of poll() becomes not standard, but this obviates the
need of "spurious" UFFDIO_WAKE and it lets the userland threads to
restart immediately without requiring an UFFDIO_WAKE. This is even
more significant in case of repeated faults on the same address from
multiple threads.

This optimization is justified by the measurement that the number of
spurious UFFDIO_WAKE accounts for 5% and 10% of the total
userfaults for heavy workloads, so it's worth optimizing those away.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com>
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit ba85c702e4b247393ffe9e3fbc13d8aee7b02059)
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
fs/userfaultfd.c