mainlining shenanigans
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Since 5.7, we've been using task_work to trigger async running of requests in the context of the original task. This generally works great, but there's a case where if the task is currently blocked in the kernel waiting on a condition to become true, it won't process task_work. Even though the task is woken, it just checks whatever condition it's waiting on, and goes back to sleep if it's still false. This is a problem if that very condition only becomes true when that task_work is run. An example of that is the task registering an eventfd with io_uring, and it's now blocked waiting on an eventfd read. That read could depend on a completion event, and that completion event won't get trigged until task_work has been run. Use the TWA_SIGNAL notification for task_work, so that we ensure that the task always runs the work when queued. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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