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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/wait.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/wait.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h index 513b36f04dfd..419b5b2bf547 100644 --- a/include/linux/wait.h +++ b/include/linux/wait.h @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key); void __wake_up_sync_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr, void *key); void __wake_up_locked(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr); void __wake_up_sync(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr); +void __wake_up_pollfree(wait_queue_head_t *wq_head); void __wake_up_bit(wait_queue_head_t *, void *, int); int __wait_on_bit(wait_queue_head_t *, struct wait_bit_queue *, wait_bit_action_f *, unsigned); int __wait_on_bit_lock(wait_queue_head_t *, struct wait_bit_queue *, wait_bit_action_f *, unsigned); @@ -185,6 +186,31 @@ wait_queue_head_t *bit_waitqueue(void *, int); #define wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(x, m) \ __wake_up_sync_key((x), TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 1, (void *) (m)) +/** + * wake_up_pollfree - signal that a polled waitqueue is going away + * @wq_head: the wait queue head + * + * In the very rare cases where a ->poll() implementation uses a waitqueue whose + * lifetime is tied to a task rather than to the 'struct file' being polled, + * this function must be called before the waitqueue is freed so that + * non-blocking polls (e.g. epoll) are notified that the queue is going away. + * + * The caller must also RCU-delay the freeing of the wait_queue_head, e.g. via + * an explicit synchronize_rcu() or call_rcu(), or via SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU. + */ +static inline void wake_up_pollfree(wait_queue_head_t *wq_head) +{ + /* + * For performance reasons, we don't always take the queue lock here. + * Therefore, we might race with someone removing the last entry from + * the queue, and proceed while they still hold the queue lock. + * However, rcu_read_lock() is required to be held in such cases, so we + * can safely proceed with an RCU-delayed free. + */ + if (waitqueue_active(wq_head)) + __wake_up_pollfree(wq_head); +} + #define ___wait_cond_timeout(condition) \ ({ \ bool __cond = (condition); \ |