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    af_unix: Detect Strongly Connected Components. · 3484f063
    Kuniyuki Iwashima authored
    In the new GC, we use a simple graph algorithm, Tarjan's Strongly
    Connected Components (SCC) algorithm, to find cyclic references.
    
    The algorithm visits every vertex exactly once using depth-first
    search (DFS).
    
    DFS starts by pushing an input vertex to a stack and assigning it
    a unique number.  Two fields, index and lowlink, are initialised
    with the number, but lowlink could be updated later during DFS.
    
    If a vertex has an edge to an unvisited inflight vertex, we visit
    it and do the same processing.  So, we will have vertices in the
    stack in the order they appear and number them consecutively in
    the same order.
    
    If a vertex has a back-edge to a visited vertex in the stack,
    we update the predecessor's lowlink with the successor's index.
    
    After iterating edges from the vertex, we check if its index
    equals its lowlink.
    
    If the lowlink is different from the index, it shows there was a
    back-edge.  Then, we go backtracking and propagate the lowlink to
    its predecessor and resume the previous edge iteration from the
    next edge.
    
    If the lowlink is the same as the index, we pop vertices before
    and including the vertex from the stack.  Then, the set of vertices
    is SCC, possibly forming a cycle.  At the same time, we move the
    vertices to unix_visited_vertices.
    
    When we finish the algorithm, all vertices in each SCC will be
    linked via unix_vertex.scc_entry.
    
    Let's take an example.  We have a graph including five inflight
    vertices (F is not inflight):
    
      A -> B -> C -> D -> E (-> F)
           ^         |
           `---------'
    
    Suppose that we start DFS from C.  We will visit C, D, and B first
    and initialise their index and lowlink.  Then, the stack looks like
    this:
    
      > B = (3, 3)  (index, lowlink)
        D = (2, 2)
        C = (1, 1)
    
    When checking B's edge to C, we update B's lowlink with C's index
    and propagate it to D.
    
        B = (3, 1)  (index, lowlink)
      > D = (2, 1)
        C = (1, 1)
    
    Next, we visit E, which has no edge to an inflight vertex.
    
      > E = (4, 4)  (index, lowlink)
        B = (3, 1)
        D = (2, 1)
        C = (1, 1)
    
    When we leave from E, its index and lowlink are the same, so we
    pop E from the stack as single-vertex SCC.  Next, we leave from
    B and D but do nothing because their lowlink are different from
    their index.
    
        B = (3, 1)  (index, lowlink)
        D = (2, 1)
      > C = (1, 1)
    
    Then, we leave from C, whose index and lowlink are the same, so
    we pop B, D and C as SCC.
    
    Last, we do DFS for the rest of vertices, A, which is also a
    single-vertex SCC.
    
    Finally, each unix_vertex.scc_entry is linked as follows:
    
      A -.  B -> C -> D  E -.
      ^  |  ^         |  ^  |
      `--'  `---------'  `--'
    
    We use SCC later to decide whether we can garbage-collect the
    sockets.
    
    Note that we still cannot detect SCC properly if an edge points
    to an embryo socket.  The following two patches will sort it out.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325202425.60930-7-kuniyu@amazon.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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