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authorDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>2009-03-31 15:24:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:20 -0700
commitbcd0b235bf3808dec5115c381cd55568f63b85f0 (patch)
treed73c4aa83dcd5321d2c48e070020576098b9705e /fs/eventfd.c
parent4f0989dbfa8d18dd17c32120aac1eb3e906a62a2 (diff)
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eventfd: improve support for semaphore-like behavior
People started using eventfd in a semaphore-like way where before they were using pipes. That is, counter-based resource access. Where a "wait()" returns immediately by decrementing the counter by one, if counter is greater than zero. Otherwise will wait. And where a "post(count)" will add count to the counter releasing the appropriate amount of waiters. If eventfd the "post" (write) part is fine, while the "wait" (read) does not dequeue 1, but the whole counter value. The problem with eventfd is that a read() on the fd returns and wipes the whole counter, making the use of it as semaphore a little bit more cumbersome. You can do a read() followed by a write() of COUNTER-1, but IMO it's pretty easy and cheap to make this work w/out extra steps. This patch introduces a new eventfd flag that tells eventfd to only dequeue 1 from the counter, allowing simple read/write to make it behave like a semaphore. Simple test here: http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-sem.c To be back-compatible with earlier kernels, userspace applications should probe for the availability of this feature via #ifdef EFD_SEMAPHORE fd = eventfd2 (CNT, EFD_SEMAPHORE); if (fd == -1 && errno == EINVAL) <fallback> #else <fallback> #endif Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/eventfd.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/eventfd.c20
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventfd.c b/fs/eventfd.c
index 5de2c2db3aa2..91c0829a7035 100644
--- a/fs/eventfd.c
+++ b/fs/eventfd.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct eventfd_ctx {
* issue a wakeup.
*/
__u64 count;
+ unsigned int flags;
};
/*
@@ -87,22 +88,20 @@ static ssize_t eventfd_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
{
struct eventfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
ssize_t res;
- __u64 ucnt;
+ __u64 ucnt = 0;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
if (count < sizeof(ucnt))
return -EINVAL;
spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
res = -EAGAIN;
- ucnt = ctx->count;
- if (ucnt > 0)
+ if (ctx->count > 0)
res = sizeof(ucnt);
else if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) {
__add_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait);
for (res = 0;;) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (ctx->count > 0) {
- ucnt = ctx->count;
res = sizeof(ucnt);
break;
}
@@ -117,8 +116,9 @@ static ssize_t eventfd_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
__remove_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
}
- if (res > 0) {
- ctx->count = 0;
+ if (likely(res > 0)) {
+ ucnt = (ctx->flags & EFD_SEMAPHORE) ? 1 : ctx->count;
+ ctx->count -= ucnt;
if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->wqh))
wake_up_locked(&ctx->wqh);
}
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static ssize_t eventfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t c
__remove_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
}
- if (res > 0) {
+ if (likely(res > 0)) {
ctx->count += ucnt;
if (waitqueue_active(&ctx->wqh))
wake_up_locked(&ctx->wqh);
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(eventfd2, unsigned int, count, int, flags)
BUILD_BUG_ON(EFD_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);
BUILD_BUG_ON(EFD_NONBLOCK != O_NONBLOCK);
- if (flags & ~(EFD_CLOEXEC | EFD_NONBLOCK))
+ if (flags & ~EFD_FLAGS_SET)
return -EINVAL;
ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -216,13 +216,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(eventfd2, unsigned int, count, int, flags)
init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->wqh);
ctx->count = count;
+ ctx->flags = flags;
/*
* When we call this, the initialization must be complete, since
* anon_inode_getfd() will install the fd.
*/
fd = anon_inode_getfd("[eventfd]", &eventfd_fops, ctx,
- flags & (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK));
+ flags & EFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
if (fd < 0)
kfree(ctx);
return fd;
@@ -232,3 +233,4 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(eventfd, unsigned int, count)
{
return sys_eventfd2(count, 0);
}
+