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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-03-27 01:16:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 08:44:49 -0800
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[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: core
Add the core infrastructure for robust futexes: structure definitions, the new syscalls and the do_exit() based cleanup mechanism. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 5efa2f978032..feb724b2554e 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
* Removed page pinning, fix privately mapped COW pages and other cleanups
* (C) Copyright 2003, 2004 Jamie Lokier
*
+ * Robust futex support started by Ingo Molnar
+ * (C) Copyright 2006 Red Hat Inc, All Rights Reserved
+ * Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for suggestions, analysis and fixes.
+ *
* Thanks to Ben LaHaise for yelling "hashed waitqueues" loudly
* enough at me, Linus for the original (flawed) idea, Matthew
* Kirkwood for proof-of-concept implementation.
@@ -829,6 +833,174 @@ error:
goto out;
}
+/*
+ * Support for robust futexes: the kernel cleans up held futexes at
+ * thread exit time.
+ *
+ * Implementation: user-space maintains a per-thread list of locks it
+ * is holding. Upon do_exit(), the kernel carefully walks this list,
+ * and marks all locks that are owned by this thread with the
+ * FUTEX_OWNER_DEAD bit, and wakes up a waiter (if any). The list is
+ * always manipulated with the lock held, so the list is private and
+ * per-thread. Userspace also maintains a per-thread 'list_op_pending'
+ * field, to allow the kernel to clean up if the thread dies after
+ * acquiring the lock, but just before it could have added itself to
+ * the list. There can only be one such pending lock.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * sys_set_robust_list - set the robust-futex list head of a task
+ * @head: pointer to the list-head
+ * @len: length of the list-head, as userspace expects
+ */
+asmlinkage long
+sys_set_robust_list(struct robust_list_head __user *head,
+ size_t len)
+{
+ /*
+ * The kernel knows only one size for now:
+ */
+ if (unlikely(len != sizeof(*head)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ current->robust_list = head;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * sys_get_robust_list - get the robust-futex list head of a task
+ * @pid: pid of the process [zero for current task]
+ * @head_ptr: pointer to a list-head pointer, the kernel fills it in
+ * @len_ptr: pointer to a length field, the kernel fills in the header size
+ */
+asmlinkage long
+sys_get_robust_list(int pid, struct robust_list_head __user **head_ptr,
+ size_t __user *len_ptr)
+{
+ struct robust_list_head *head;
+ unsigned long ret;
+
+ if (!pid)
+ head = current->robust_list;
+ else {
+ struct task_struct *p;
+
+ ret = -ESRCH;
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ p = find_task_by_pid(pid);
+ if (!p)
+ goto err_unlock;
+ ret = -EPERM;
+ if ((current->euid != p->euid) && (current->euid != p->uid) &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+ goto err_unlock;
+ head = p->robust_list;
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ }
+
+ if (put_user(sizeof(*head), len_ptr))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return put_user(head, head_ptr);
+
+err_unlock:
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Process a futex-list entry, check whether it's owned by the
+ * dying task, and do notification if so:
+ */
+int handle_futex_death(unsigned int *uaddr, struct task_struct *curr)
+{
+ unsigned int futex_val;
+
+repeat:
+ if (get_user(futex_val, uaddr))
+ return -1;
+
+ if ((futex_val & FUTEX_TID_MASK) == curr->pid) {
+ /*
+ * Ok, this dying thread is truly holding a futex
+ * of interest. Set the OWNER_DIED bit atomically
+ * via cmpxchg, and if the value had FUTEX_WAITERS
+ * set, wake up a waiter (if any). (We have to do a
+ * futex_wake() even if OWNER_DIED is already set -
+ * to handle the rare but possible case of recursive
+ * thread-death.) The rest of the cleanup is done in
+ * userspace.
+ */
+ if (futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser(uaddr, futex_val,
+ futex_val | FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) !=
+ futex_val)
+ goto repeat;
+
+ if (futex_val & FUTEX_WAITERS)
+ futex_wake((unsigned long)uaddr, 1);
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Walk curr->robust_list (very carefully, it's a userspace list!)
+ * and mark any locks found there dead, and notify any waiters.
+ *
+ * We silently return on any sign of list-walking problem.
+ */
+void exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr)
+{
+ struct robust_list_head __user *head = curr->robust_list;
+ struct robust_list __user *entry, *pending;
+ unsigned int limit = ROBUST_LIST_LIMIT;
+ unsigned long futex_offset;
+
+ /*
+ * Fetch the list head (which was registered earlier, via
+ * sys_set_robust_list()):
+ */
+ if (get_user(entry, &head->list.next))
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Fetch the relative futex offset:
+ */
+ if (get_user(futex_offset, &head->futex_offset))
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Fetch any possibly pending lock-add first, and handle it
+ * if it exists:
+ */
+ if (get_user(pending, &head->list_op_pending))
+ return;
+ if (pending)
+ handle_futex_death((void *)pending + futex_offset, curr);
+
+ while (entry != &head->list) {
+ /*
+ * A pending lock might already be on the list, so
+ * dont process it twice:
+ */
+ if (entry != pending)
+ if (handle_futex_death((void *)entry + futex_offset,
+ curr))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Fetch the next entry in the list:
+ */
+ if (get_user(entry, &entry->next))
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Avoid excessively long or circular lists:
+ */
+ if (!--limit)
+ break;
+
+ cond_resched();
+ }
+}
+
long do_futex(unsigned long uaddr, int op, int val, unsigned long timeout,
unsigned long uaddr2, int val2, int val3)
{