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The existing `CondVar` abstraction is a wrapper around `wait_queue_head`, but it does not support all use-cases of the C `wait_queue_head` type. To be specific, a `CondVar` cannot be registered with a `struct poll_table`. This limitation has the advantage that you do not need to call `synchronize_rcu` when destroying a `CondVar`. However, we need the ability to register a `poll_table` with a `wait_queue_head` in Rust Binder. To enable this, introduce a type called `PollCondVar`, which is like `CondVar` except that you can register a `poll_table`. We also introduce `PollTable`, which is a safe wrapper around `poll_table` that is intended to be used with `PollCondVar`. The destructor of `PollCondVar` unconditionally calls `synchronize_rcu` to ensure that the removal of epoll waiters has fully completed before the `wait_queue_head` is destroyed. That said, `synchronize_rcu` is rather expensive and is not needed in all cases: If we have never registered a `poll_table` with the `wait_queue_head`, then we don't need to call `synchronize_rcu`. (And this is a common case in Binder - not all processes use Binder with epoll.) The current implementation does not account for this, but if we find that it is necessary to improve this, a future patch could store a boolean next to the `wait_queue_head` to keep track of whether a `poll_table` has ever been registered. Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-8-88484f7a3dcf@google.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
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 reStructuredText 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.