On 03/03, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>
> This queueing
> and subsequent CPU cycle wastage can be avoided if the locking thread
> could request to be granted an additional timeslice if its current
> timeslice runs out before it gives up the lock.
Well. I am in no position to discuss the changes in sched/fair.c. I have
to admit that I am skeptical about the whole idea/implementation, but I
leave this to sched/ maintainers.
However, at least the proc/mmap changes do not look right. I didn't read
the whole patch, just picked a "random" ->mmap function, see below.
> kernel/sched/preempt_delay.c | 39 ++++++
Why? This can go into proc/ as well.
> +static void
> +close_preempt_delay_vmops(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + struct preemp_delay_mmap_state *state;
> +
> + state = (struct preemp_delay_mmap_state *) vma->vm_private_data;
> + BUG_ON(!state || !state->task);
> +
> + state->page->mapping = NULL;
> + /* point delay request flag pointer back to old flag in task_struct */
> + state->task->sched_preempt_delay.delay_req =
> + &state->task->sched_preempt_delay.delay_flag;
> + state->task->sched_preempt_delay.mmap_state = NULL;
> + vfree(state->kaddr);
> + kfree(state);
> + vma->vm_private_data = NULL;
> +}
Suppose that state->task != current. Then this can race with do_exit()
which cleanups ->mmap_state too. OTOH do_exit() unmaps this region, it
is not clear why it can't rely in vm_ops->close().
Hmm. In fact I think do_exit() should crash after munmap? ->mmap_state
should be NULL ?? Perhaps I misread this patch completely...
> +static int
> +tid_preempt_delay_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + int retval = 0;
> + void *kaddr = NULL;
> + struct preemp_delay_mmap_state *state = NULL;
> + struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> + struct task_struct *task;
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + /*
> + * Validate args:
> + * - Only offset 0 support for now
> + * - size should be PAGE_SIZE
> + */
> + if (vma->vm_pgoff != 0 || (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) != PAGE_SIZE) {
> + retval = -EINVAL;
> + goto error;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Only one mmap allowed at a time
> + */
> + if (current->sched_preempt_delay.mmap_state != NULL) {
> + retval = -EEXIST;
> + goto error;
This assumes that we are going to setup current->sched_preempt_delay.mmap_state,
but what if the task opens /proc/random_tid/sched_preempt_delay ?
> + state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct preemp_delay_mmap_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> + kaddr = vmalloc_user(PAGE_SIZE);
Why vmalloc() ? We only need a single page?
> + task = get_proc_task(inode);
And it seems that nobody does put_task_struct(state->task);
> + state->page = page;
> + state->kaddr = kaddr;
> + state->uaddr = (void *)vma->vm_start;
This is used by do_exit(). But ->vm_start can be changed by mremap() ?
Hmm. And mremap() can do vm_ops->close() too. But the new vma will
have the same vm_ops/vm_private_data, so exit_mmap() will try to do
this again... Perhaps I missed something, but I bet this all can't be
right.
> + state->task = task;
> +
> + /* Clear the current delay request flag */
> + task->sched_preempt_delay.delay_flag = 0;
> +
> + /* Point delay request flag pointer to the newly allocated memory */
> + task->sched_preempt_delay.delay_req = (unsigned char *)kaddr;
> +
> + task->sched_preempt_delay.mmap_state = state;
> + vma->vm_private_data = state;
> + vma->vm_ops = &preempt_delay_vmops;
> + vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_SHARED | VM_WRITE;
This probably also needs VM_IO, to protect from madvise(MADV_DOFORK).
VM_SHARED/VM_WRITE doesn't look right.
Oleg.
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