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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> |
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asn1.c | ||
cache.c | ||
cifs_debug.c | ||
cifs_debug.h | ||
cifs_dfs_ref.c | ||
cifs_fs_sb.h | ||
cifs_spnego.c | ||
cifs_spnego.h | ||
cifs_unicode.c | ||
cifs_unicode.h | ||
cifs_uniupr.h | ||
cifsacl.c | ||
cifsacl.h | ||
cifsencrypt.c | ||
cifsfs.c | ||
cifsfs.h | ||
cifsglob.h | ||
cifspdu.h | ||
cifsproto.h | ||
cifssmb.c | ||
connect.c | ||
dir.c | ||
dns_resolve.c | ||
dns_resolve.h | ||
export.c | ||
file.c | ||
fscache.c | ||
fscache.h | ||
inode.c | ||
ioctl.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
link.c | ||
Makefile | ||
misc.c | ||
netmisc.c | ||
nterr.c | ||
nterr.h | ||
ntlmssp.h | ||
readdir.c | ||
rfc1002pdu.h | ||
sess.c | ||
smb1ops.c | ||
smb2file.c | ||
smb2glob.h | ||
smb2inode.c | ||
smb2maperror.c | ||
smb2misc.c | ||
smb2ops.c | ||
smb2pdu.c | ||
smb2pdu.h | ||
smb2proto.h | ||
smb2status.h | ||
smb2transport.c | ||
smbencrypt.c | ||
smberr.h | ||
smbfsctl.h | ||
transport.c | ||
winucase.c | ||
xattr.c |