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    • Hans Verkuil's avatar
      poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions · 626cf236
      Hans Verkuil authored 
      In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for.  An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested.  This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem among others.

Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably.  The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask.  But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table pointer.

Also, the eventpoll implementation always left the key field at ~0 instead
of using the requested events mask.

This was changed in eventpoll.c so the key field now contains the actual
events that should be polled for as set by the caller.

The solution to the NULL poll_table pointer is to set the qproc field to
NULL in poll_table once poll() matches the events, not the poll_table
pointer itself.  That way drivers can obtain the mask through a new
poll_requested_events inline.

The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h).  In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e.  all events).

Very rarely drivers might want to know whether poll_wait will actually
wait.  If another earlier file descriptor in the set already matched the
events the caller wanted to wait for, then the kernel will return from the
select() call without waiting.  This might be useful information in order
to avoid doing expensive work.

A new helper function poll_does_not_wait() is added that drivers can use
to detect this situation.  This is now used in sock_poll_wait() in
include/net/sock.h.  This was the only place in the kernel that needed
this information.

Drivers should no longer access any of the poll_table internals, but use
the poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() access functions
instead.  In order to enforce that the poll_table fields are now prepended
with an underscore and a comment was added warning against using them
directly.

This required a change in unix_dgram_poll() in unix/af_unix.c which used
the key field to get the requested events.  It's been replaced by a call
to poll_requested_events().

For qproc it was especially important to change its name since the
behavior of that field changes with this patch since this function pointer
can now be NULL when that wasn't possible in the past.

Any driver accessing the qproc or key fields directly will now fail to compile.

Some notes regarding the correctness of this patch: the driver's poll()
function is called with a 'struct poll_table_struct *wait' argument.  This
pointer may or may not be NULL, drivers can never rely on it being one or
the other as that depends on whether or not an earlier file descriptor in
the select()'s fdset matched the requested events.

There are only three things a driver can do with the wait argument:

1) obtain the key field:

	events = wait ? wait->key : ~0;

   This will still work although it should be replaced with the new
   poll_requested_events() function (which does exactly the same).
   This will now even work better, since wait is no longer set to NULL
   unnecessarily.

2) use the qproc callback. This could be deadly since qproc can now be
   NULL. Renaming qproc should prevent this from happening. There are no
   kernel drivers that actually access this callback directly, BTW.

3) test whether wait == NULL to determine whether poll would return without
   waiting. This is no longer sufficient as the correct test is now
   wait == NULL || wait->_qproc == NULL.

   However, the worst that can happen here is a slight performance hit in
   the case where wait != NULL and wait->_qproc == NULL. In that case the
   driver will assume that poll_wait() will actually add the fd to the set
   of waiting file descriptors. Of course, poll_wait() will not do that
   since it tests for wait->_qproc. This will not break anything, though.

   There is only one place in the whole kernel where this happens
   (sock_poll_wait() in include/net/sock.h) and that code will be replaced
   by a call to poll_does_not_wait() in the next patch.

   Note that even if wait->_qproc != NULL drivers cannot rely on poll_wait()
   actually waiting. The next file descriptor from the set might match the
   event mask and thus any possible waits will never happen.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      626cf236
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      crc32: select an algorithm via Kconfig · 5cde7656
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      Allow the kernel builder to choose a crc32* algorithm for the kernel.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5cde7656
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      crc32: add self-test code for crc32c · 577eba9e
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      Add self-test code for crc32c.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      577eba9e
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      crypto: crc32c should use library implementation · 6a0962b2
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      Since lib/crc32.c now provides crc32c, remove the software implementation
here and call the library function instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6a0962b2
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      crc32: bolt on crc32c · 46c5801e
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      Reuse the existing crc32 code to stamp out a crc32c implementation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      46c5801e
    • Bob Pearson's avatar
      crc32: add note about this patchset to crc32.c · 78dff418
      Bob Pearson authored 
      Add a comment at the top of crc32.c

[djwong@us.ibm.com: Minor changelog tweaks]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      78dff418
    • Bob Pearson's avatar
      crc32: optimize loop counter for x86 · 0292c497
      Bob Pearson authored 
      Add two changes that improve the performance of x86 systems

1. replace main loop with incrementing counter this change improves
   the performance of the selftest by about 5-6% on Nehalem CPUs.  The
   apparent reason is that the compiler can use the loop index to perform
   an indexed memory access.  This is reported to make the performance of
   PowerPC CPUs to get worse.

2. replace the rem_len loop with incrementing counter this change
   improves the performance of the selftest, which has more than the usual
   number of occurances, by about 1-2% on x86 CPUs.  In actual work loads
   the length is most often a multiple of 4 bytes and this code does not
   get executed as often if at all.  Again this change is reported to make
   the performance of PowerPC get worse.

[djwong@us.ibm.com: Minor changelog tweaks]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0292c497
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