sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout

It is currently not possible for various wait_on_bit functions
to implement a timeout.

While the "action" function that is called to do the waiting
could certainly use schedule_timeout(), there is no way to carry
forward the remaining timeout after a false wake-up.
As false-wakeups a clearly possible at least due to possible
hash collisions in bit_waitqueue(), this is a real problem.

The 'action' function is currently passed a pointer to the word
containing the bit being waited on.  No current action functions
use this pointer.  So changing it to something else will be a
little noisy but will have no immediate effect.

This patch changes the 'action' function to take a pointer to
the "struct wait_bit_key", which contains a pointer to the word
containing the bit so nothing is really lost.

It also adds a 'private' field to "struct wait_bit_key", which
is initialized to zero.

An action function can now implement a timeout with something
like

static int timed_out_waiter(struct wait_bit_key *key)
{
	unsigned long waited;
	if (key->private == 0) {
		key->private = jiffies;
		if (key->private == 0)
			key->private -= 1;
	}
	waited = jiffies - key->private;
	if (waited > 10 * HZ)
		return -EAGAIN;
	schedule_timeout(waited - 10 * HZ);
	return 0;
}

If any other need for context in a waiter were found it would be
easy to use ->private for some other purpose, or even extend
"struct wait_bit_key".

My particular need is to support timeouts in nfs_release_page()
to avoid deadlocks with loopback mounted NFS.

While wait_on_bit_timeout() would be a cleaner interface, it
will not meet my need.  I need the timeout to be sensitive to
the state of the connection with the server, which could change.
 So I need to use an 'action' interface.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051604.28027.41257.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index c0365c14b858..9358c79fd589 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ void rpc_destroy_wait_queue(struct rpc_wait_queue *queue)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_destroy_wait_queue);
 
-static int rpc_wait_bit_killable(void *word)
+static int rpc_wait_bit_killable(struct wait_bit_key *key)
 {
 	if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
 		return -ERESTARTSYS;
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static int rpc_complete_task(struct rpc_task *task)
  * to enforce taking of the wq->lock and hence avoid races with
  * rpc_complete_task().
  */
-int __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(struct rpc_task *task, int (*action)(void *))
+int __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(struct rpc_task *task, wait_bit_action_f *action)
 {
 	if (action == NULL)
 		action = rpc_wait_bit_killable;