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Paolo Bonzini a484c3dd94 eventfd: document lockless access in eventfd_poll 
Since commit e22553e2a2 ("eventfd: don't take the spinlock in
eventfd_poll", 2015-02-17), eventfd is reading ctx->count outside
ctx->wqh.lock.

However, things aren't as simple as the read barrier in eventfd_poll
would suggest.  In fact, the read barrier, besides lacking a comment, is
not paired in any obvious manner with another read barrier, and it is
pointless because it is sitting between a write (deep in poll_wait) and
the read of ctx->count.  The read barrier is acting just as a compiler
barrier, for which we can use READ_ONCE instead.  This is what the code
change in this patch does.

The documentation change is just as important, however.  The question,
posed by Andrea Arcangeli, is then why the thing is safe on
architectures where spin_unlock does not imply a store-load memory
barrier.  The answer is that it's safe because writes of ctx->count use
the same lock as poll_wait, and hence an acquire barrier implicit in
poll_wait provides the necessary synchronization between eventfd_poll
and callers of wake_up_locked_poll.  This is sort of mentioned in the
commit message with respect to eventfd_ctx_read ("eventfd_read is
similar, it will do a single decrement with the lock held") but it
applies to all other callers too.  It's tricky enough that it should be
documented in the code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
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9p wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
adfs fs/adfs/adfs.h: tidy up comments 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
affs affs_do_readpage_ofs(): just use kmap_atomic() around memcpy() 2016-02-20 00:15:51 -05:00
afs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
autofs4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
befs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
bfs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2016-03-21 18:12:42 -07:00
cachefiles CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd 2016-02-01 12:30:10 -05:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
cifs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
coda Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-01-23 12:24:56 -08:00
configfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
cramfs don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem 2015-12-08 22:41:36 -05:00
crypto Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs 2016-03-21 11:03:02 -07:00
debugfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
devpts pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty close 2016-02-06 23:45:46 -08:00
dlm dlm for 4.6 2016-03-17 16:38:36 -07:00
ecryptfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
efivarfs efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default 2016-02-10 16:25:52 +00:00
efs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
exofs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
exportfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
ext2 Performance improvements in SEEK_DATA and xattr scalability 2016-03-17 16:31:18 -07:00
ext4 ext4: in ext4_dir_llseek, check syscall bitness directly 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
f2fs f2fs: submit node page write bios when really required 2016-03-17 21:19:47 -07:00
fat fat: add config option to set UTF-8 mount option by default 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
freevxfs don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem 2015-12-08 22:41:36 -05:00
fscache FS-Cache: Handle a write to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker 2015-11-11 02:11:02 -05:00
fuse wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
gfs2 GFS2: merge window 2016-03-17 16:51:32 -07:00
hfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
hfsplus wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
hostfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
hpfs hpfs: don't truncate the file when delete fails 2016-02-27 19:15:51 -05:00
hugetlbfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
isofs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
jbd2 jbd2: do not fail journal because of frozen_buffer allocation failure 2016-03-13 17:38:20 -04:00
jffs2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-11 10:13:49 -08:00
jfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
kernfs Merge branch 'for-4.6-ns' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-03-21 10:05:13 -07:00
lockd lockd: constify nlmsvc_binding structure 2016-01-07 10:10:50 -05:00
logfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
minix kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
ncpfs ncpfs: fix a braino in OOM handling in ncp_fill_cache() 2016-03-07 22:25:16 -05:00
nfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
nfs_common lockd: NLM grace period shouldn't block NFSv4 opens 2015-08-13 10:22:06 -04:00
nfsd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-03-19 18:52:29 -07:00
nilfs2 mm: introduce page reference manipulation functions 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
nls
notify fsnotify: turn fsnotify reaper thread into a workqueue job 2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
ntfs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: check/fix inode block for online file check 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
omfs
openpromfs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
overlayfs ovl: copy new uid/gid into overlayfs runtime inode 2016-03-03 17:17:46 +01:00
proc Merge branch 'for-4.6-ns' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-03-21 10:05:13 -07:00
pstore pstore: Add support for 64 Bit address space 2016-03-10 09:43:36 -08:00
qnx4 kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
qnx6 kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
quota Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2016-03-21 12:22:37 -07:00
ramfs don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem 2015-12-08 22:41:36 -05:00
reiserfs quota: Add support for ->get_nextdqblk() for VFS quota 2016-02-09 13:05:23 +01:00
romfs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
squashfs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
sysfs platform/chrome: Branch for v4.4 2015-11-13 21:53:18 -08:00
sysv kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
tracefs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
ubifs wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
udf udf: Merge linux specific translation into CS0 conversion function 2016-02-09 13:05:23 +01:00
ufs kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
xfs xfs: Changes for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-21 11:53:05 -07:00
aio.c mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
bad_inode.c fs/bad_inode.c: is_bad_inode can be boolean 2015-12-06 21:17:14 -05:00
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c libnvdimm for 4.4: 2015-11-10 12:07:22 -08:00
binfmt_elf.c mm: ASLR: use get_random_long() 2016-02-27 10:28:52 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
binfmt_script.c
block_dev.c Merge branch 'for-4.6/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-03-18 16:43:11 -07:00
buffer.c mm: simplify lock_page_memcg() 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
char_dev.c fs/char_dev.c: fix incorrect documentation for unregister_chrdev_region 2015-08-05 13:49:35 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Merge 4.5-rc4 into char-misc-next 2016-02-14 14:25:59 -08:00
compat.c saner calling conventions for copy_mount_options() 2016-01-04 10:28:32 -05:00
coredump.c fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
dax.c xfs: Changes for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-21 11:53:05 -07:00
dcache.c dcache.c: new helper: __d_add() 2016-03-14 00:17:38 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c xfs: Changes for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-21 11:53:05 -07:00
drop_caches.c inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb 2015-08-17 18:39:46 -04:00
eventfd.c eventfd: document lockless access in eventfd_poll 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
eventpoll.c timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
exec.c Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-20 19:08:56 -07:00
fcntl.c fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe 2016-01-09 02:55:37 -05:00
fhandle.c fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
file_table.c fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
file.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
filesystems.c find_filesystem(): simplify comparison 2016-01-19 12:02:23 -05:00
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: flush inode cgroup wb switches instead of pinning super_block 2016-03-03 14:42:50 -07:00
inode.c writeback: initialize inode members that track writeback history 2016-02-16 14:57:21 -07:00
internal.h Merge branch 'for-linus' into work.misc 2016-01-08 21:20:11 -05:00
ioctl.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
Kconfig fs crypto: move per-file encryption from f2fs tree to fs/crypto 2016-03-17 21:19:33 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
locks.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
Makefile fs crypto: move per-file encryption from f2fs tree to fs/crypto 2016-03-17 21:19:33 -07:00
mbcache.c mbcache: add reusable flag to cache entries 2016-02-22 22:44:04 -05:00
mount.h fs: use seq_open_private() for proc_mounts 2015-06-30 19:44:56 -07:00
mpage.c fs/mpage.c:mpage_readpages(): use lru_to_page() helper 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
namei.c kill dentry_unhash() 2016-03-14 00:16:33 -04:00
namespace.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
open.c fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
pipe.c pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes 2016-01-19 19:25:21 -05:00
pnode.c fs/pnode.c: treat zero mnt_group_id-s as unequal 2016-02-20 00:15:52 -05:00
pnode.h mnt: Clarify and correct the disconnect logic in umount_tree 2015-07-22 20:33:27 -05:00
posix_acl.c xattr handlers: Simplify list operation 2015-12-13 19:46:12 -05:00
proc_namespace.c vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method 2016-03-16 13:09:08 -04:00
read_write.c Merge branches 'work.lookups', 'work.misc' and 'work.preadv2' into for-next 2016-03-18 16:07:38 -04:00
readdir.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
select.c timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
seq_file.c fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
signalfd.c signalfd: fix information leak in signalfd_copyinfo 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
splice.c Merge branches 'work.lookups', 'work.misc' and 'work.preadv2' into for-next 2016-03-18 16:07:38 -04:00
stack.c
stat.c fs/stat.c: drop the last new_valid_dev check 2016-01-16 11:17:23 -08:00
statfs.c
super.c writeback: flush inode cgroup wb switches instead of pinning super_block 2016-03-03 14:42:50 -07:00
sync.c fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE writeback 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
timerfd.c timerfd: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper 2016-01-17 11:13:55 +01:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time 2016-03-02 09:03:18 -08:00
utimes.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
xattr.c xattr handlers: plug a lock leak in simple_xattr_list 2016-02-20 00:15:51 -05:00