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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-28 19:43:44 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-28 20:40:47 +0300
commita11e1d432b51f63ba698d044441284a661f01144 (patch)
tree9f3c5a10bf0d7f9a342d5fb39c0c35ea14170124 /fs/eventpoll.c
parentf57494321cbf5b1e7769b6135407d2995a369e28 (diff)
downloadlinux-a11e1d432b51f63ba698d044441284a661f01144.tar.xz
Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because "->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect calls. Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the "->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections. But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental redesign. [ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ] Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/eventpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/eventpoll.c15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index ea4436f409fb..67db22fe99c5 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -922,18 +922,14 @@ static __poll_t ep_read_events_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, struct list_head *head
return 0;
}
-static struct wait_queue_head *ep_eventpoll_get_poll_head(struct file *file,
- __poll_t eventmask)
-{
- struct eventpoll *ep = file->private_data;
- return &ep->poll_wait;
-}
-
-static __poll_t ep_eventpoll_poll_mask(struct file *file, __poll_t eventmask)
+static __poll_t ep_eventpoll_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
{
struct eventpoll *ep = file->private_data;
int depth = 0;
+ /* Insert inside our poll wait queue */
+ poll_wait(file, &ep->poll_wait, wait);
+
/*
* Proceed to find out if wanted events are really available inside
* the ready list.
@@ -972,8 +968,7 @@ static const struct file_operations eventpoll_fops = {
.show_fdinfo = ep_show_fdinfo,
#endif
.release = ep_eventpoll_release,
- .get_poll_head = ep_eventpoll_get_poll_head,
- .poll_mask = ep_eventpoll_poll_mask,
+ .poll = ep_eventpoll_poll,
.llseek = noop_llseek,
};