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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Guillaume Knispel <gknispel@proformatique.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll/select: initialize triggered field of struct poll_wqueues
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:53:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A875874.20401@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090815193024.121926e6@xilun.lan.proformatique.com>

Guillaume Knispel wrote:
> poll/select: initialize triggered field of struct poll_wqueues
> 
> The triggered field of struct poll_wqueues introduced in commit
> 5f820f648c92a5ecc771a96b3c29aa6e90013bba "poll: allow f_op->poll to
> sleep" was set to 1 in pollwake() (now __pollwake() ), tested and
> later set to 0 in poll_schedule_timeout(), but not initialized before.
> As a result when the process needs to sleep, triggered was likely to be
> non-zero even if pollwake() is not called before the first
> poll_schedule_timeout(), meaning schedule_hrtimeout_range() would not
> be called and an extra loop calling all ->poll() would be done.
> 
> This patch initialize triggered to 0 in poll_initwait() so the ->poll()
> are not called twice before the process goes to sleep when it needs to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <gknispel@proformatique.com>

Ah... nice spotting.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-16  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-15 17:30 [PATCH] poll/select: initialize triggered field of struct poll_wqueues Guillaume Knispel
2009-08-15 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-16  0:53 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-08-16  1:15   ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-16  1:37     ` Tejun Heo
2009-08-16  1:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-16  1:40       ` Linus Torvalds

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