From: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
commit ebf0d100df0731901c16632f78d78d35f4123bc4 upstream.
If JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is already set on the targeted task, then we need
not go through {lock,unlock}_task_sighand() to set it again and queue
a signal wakeup. This is safe as we're checking it _after_ adding the
new task_work with cmpxchg().
The ordering is as follows:
task_work_add() get_signal()
--------------------------------------------------------------
STORE(task->task_works, new_work); STORE(task->jobctl);
mb(); mb();
LOAD(task->jobctl); LOAD(task->task_works);
This speeds up TWA_SIGNAL handling quite a bit, which is important now
that io_uring is relying on it for all task_work deliveries.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/signal.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
kernel/task_work.c | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2541,7 +2541,21 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
relock:
spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
- current->jobctl &= ~JOBCTL_TASK_WORK;
+ /*
+ * Make sure we can safely read ->jobctl() in task_work add. As Oleg
+ * states:
+ *
+ * It pairs with mb (implied by cmpxchg) before READ_ONCE. So we
+ * roughly have
+ *
+ * task_work_add: get_signal:
+ * STORE(task->task_works, new_work); STORE(task->jobctl);
+ * mb(); mb();
+ * LOAD(task->jobctl); LOAD(task->task_works);
+ *
+ * and we can rely on STORE-MB-LOAD [ in task_work_add].
+ */
+ smp_store_mb(current->jobctl, current->jobctl & ~JOBCTL_TASK_WORK);
if (unlikely(current->task_works)) {
spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
task_work_run();
--- a/kernel/task_work.c
+++ b/kernel/task_work.c
@@ -42,7 +42,13 @@ task_work_add(struct task_struct *task,
set_notify_resume(task);
break;
case TWA_SIGNAL:
- if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
+ /*
+ * Only grab the sighand lock if we don't already have some
+ * task_work pending. This pairs with the smp_store_mb()
+ * in get_signal(), see comment there.
+ */
+ if (!(READ_ONCE(task->jobctl) & JOBCTL_TASK_WORK) &&
+ lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
task->jobctl |= JOBCTL_TASK_WORK;
signal_wake_up(task, 0);
unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
