From c32ccd87bfd1414b0aabfcd8dbc7539ad23bcbaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:07:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused, but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the system. Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a 512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes. Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not its parent inode has a watch on it. Event queueing to parent will skip taking locks if this flag is cleared. Setting and clearing of this flag on all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check. The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Robert Love Cc: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/inotify.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/inotify.c') diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 0ee39ef591c6..a61e93e17853 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ #include static atomic_t inotify_cookie; -static atomic_t inotify_watches; static kmem_cache_t *watch_cachep; static kmem_cache_t *event_cachep; @@ -380,6 +379,48 @@ static int find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct nameidata *nd, return error; } +/* + * inotify_inode_watched - returns nonzero if there are watches on this inode + * and zero otherwise. We call this lockless, we do not care if we race. + */ +static inline int inotify_inode_watched(struct inode *inode) +{ + return !list_empty(&inode->inotify_watches); +} + +/* + * Get child dentry flag into synch with parent inode. + * Flag should always be clear for negative dentrys. + */ +static void set_dentry_child_flags(struct inode *inode, int watched) +{ + struct dentry *alias; + + spin_lock(&dcache_lock); + list_for_each_entry(alias, &inode->i_dentry, d_alias) { + struct dentry *child; + + list_for_each_entry(child, &alias->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) { + if (!child->d_inode) { + WARN_ON(child->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED); + continue; + } + spin_lock(&child->d_lock); + if (watched) { + WARN_ON(child->d_flags & + DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED); + child->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; + } else { + WARN_ON(!(child->d_flags & + DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED)); + child->d_flags&=~DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; + } + spin_unlock(&child->d_lock); + } + } + spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); +} + /* * create_watch - creates a watch on the given device. * @@ -426,7 +467,6 @@ static struct inotify_watch *create_watch(struct inotify_device *dev, get_inotify_watch(watch); atomic_inc(&dev->user->inotify_watches); - atomic_inc(&inotify_watches); return watch; } @@ -458,8 +498,10 @@ static void remove_watch_no_event(struct inotify_watch *watch, list_del(&watch->i_list); list_del(&watch->d_list); + if (!inotify_inode_watched(watch->inode)) + set_dentry_child_flags(watch->inode, 0); + atomic_dec(&dev->user->inotify_watches); - atomic_dec(&inotify_watches); idr_remove(&dev->idr, watch->wd); put_inotify_watch(watch); } @@ -481,16 +523,39 @@ static void remove_watch(struct inotify_watch *watch,struct inotify_device *dev) remove_watch_no_event(watch, dev); } +/* Kernel API */ + /* - * inotify_inode_watched - returns nonzero if there are watches on this inode - * and zero otherwise. We call this lockless, we do not care if we race. + * inotify_d_instantiate - instantiate dcache entry for inode */ -static inline int inotify_inode_watched(struct inode *inode) +void inotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode) { - return !list_empty(&inode->inotify_watches); + struct dentry *parent; + + if (!inode) + return; + + WARN_ON(entry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED); + spin_lock(&entry->d_lock); + parent = entry->d_parent; + if (inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode)) + entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; + spin_unlock(&entry->d_lock); } -/* Kernel API */ +/* + * inotify_d_move - dcache entry has been moved + */ +void inotify_d_move(struct dentry *entry) +{ + struct dentry *parent; + + parent = entry->d_parent; + if (inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode)) + entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; + else + entry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; +} /** * inotify_inode_queue_event - queue an event to all watches on this inode @@ -538,7 +603,7 @@ void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *dentry, u32 mask, struct dentry *parent; struct inode *inode; - if (!atomic_read (&inotify_watches)) + if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED)) return; spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); @@ -993,6 +1058,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) goto out; } + if (!inotify_inode_watched(inode)) + set_dentry_child_flags(inode, 1); + /* Add the watch to the device's and the inode's list */ list_add(&watch->d_list, &dev->watches); list_add(&watch->i_list, &inode->inotify_watches); @@ -1065,7 +1133,6 @@ static int __init inotify_setup(void) inotify_max_user_watches = 8192; atomic_set(&inotify_cookie, 0); - atomic_set(&inotify_watches, 0); watch_cachep = kmem_cache_create("inotify_watch_cache", sizeof(struct inotify_watch), -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b