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[PATCH] files: files struct with RCU

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Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side
and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter.  The
updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and
setting files->fdt to point to the new structure.  The fdtable structure is
protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup.  For fd arrays/sets that
are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep.  A
global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list.
If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer
queueing of that work.

Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using
explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference()
premitives instead.  This required that the fd information is kept in a
separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dipankar Sarma 2005-09-09 13:04:13 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6e72ad2c58
commit ab2af1f500
10 changed files with 354 additions and 175 deletions
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include/linux/file.h
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
/*
* The default fd array needs to be at least BITS_PER_LONG,
@ -23,6 +24,9 @@ struct fdtable {
struct file ** fd; /* current fd array */
fd_set *close_on_exec;
fd_set *open_fds;
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct files_struct *free_files;
struct fdtable *next;
};
/*
@ -31,13 +35,14 @@ struct fdtable {
struct files_struct {
atomic_t count;
spinlock_t file_lock; /* Protects all the below members. Nests inside tsk->alloc_lock */
struct fdtable *fdt;
struct fdtable fdtab;
fd_set close_on_exec_init;
fd_set open_fds_init;
struct file * fd_array[NR_OPEN_DEFAULT];
};
#define files_fdtable(files) (&(files)->fdtab)
#define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))
extern void FASTCALL(__fput(struct file *));
extern void FASTCALL(fput(struct file *));
@ -65,6 +70,8 @@ extern fd_set *alloc_fdset(int);
extern void free_fdset(fd_set *, int);
extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr);
extern void free_fdtable(struct fdtable *fdt);
extern void __init files_defer_init(void);
static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
{
@ -72,7 +79,7 @@ static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned in
struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files);
if (fd < fdt->max_fds)
file = fdt->fd[fd];
file = rcu_dereference(fdt->fd[fd]);
return file;
}