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From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] wait: fix false timeouts when using wait_event_timeout()
Date: Thu,  2 May 2013 11:58:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367485129-4423-1-git-send-email-imre.deak@intel.com> (raw)

Many callers of the wait_event_timeout() and
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() expect that the return value will be
positive if the specified condition becomes true before the timeout
elapses. However, at the moment this isn't guaranteed. If the wake-up
handler is delayed enough, the time remaining until timeout will be
calculated as 0 - and passed back as a return value - even if the
condition became true before the timeout has passed.

Fix this by returning at least 1 if the condition becomes true. This
semantic is in line with what wait_for_condition_timeout() does; see
commit bb10ed09 - "sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious
failure under heavy load".

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/wait.h |   16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 7cb64d4..5336842 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ do {									\
 		if (!ret)						\
 			break;						\
 	}								\
+	if (!ret && (condition))					\
+		ret = 1;						\
 	finish_wait(&wq, &__wait);					\
 } while (0)
 
@@ -233,8 +235,9 @@ do {									\
  * wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
  * change the result of the wait condition.
  *
- * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, and the remaining
- * jiffies if the condition evaluated to true before the timeout elapsed.
+ * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, or the remaining
+ * jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated to %true before
+ * the @timeout elapsed.
  */
 #define wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)			\
 ({									\
@@ -302,6 +305,8 @@ do {									\
 		ret = -ERESTARTSYS;					\
 		break;							\
 	}								\
+	if (!ret && (condition))					\
+		ret = 1;						\
 	finish_wait(&wq, &__wait);					\
 } while (0)
 
@@ -318,9 +323,10 @@ do {									\
  * wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
  * change the result of the wait condition.
  *
- * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -ERESTARTSYS if it
- * was interrupted by a signal, and the remaining jiffies otherwise
- * if the condition evaluated to true before the timeout elapsed.
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -%ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by
+ * a signal, or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition
+ * evaluated to %true before the @timeout elapsed.
  */
 #define wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)	\
 ({									\
-- 
1.7.10.4


             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02  8:58 Imre Deak [this message]
2013-05-02  9:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-05-07 23:12   ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-08  9:49     ` Imre Deak
2013-05-02 10:29 ` David Howells
2013-05-02 12:02   ` Imre Deak
2013-05-02 12:13   ` Daniel Vetter
2013-05-02 12:23     ` Jens Axboe
2013-05-02 12:34       ` Imre Deak
2013-05-02 12:54         ` Jens Axboe
2013-05-02 13:56           ` Imre Deak
2013-05-02 14:04             ` Daniel Vetter
2013-05-02 12:29     ` David Howells
2013-05-02 12:29 ` David Howells
2013-05-02 12:35   ` Jens Axboe
2013-05-02 19:56     ` Imre Deak
2013-06-04 19:28 Oleg Nesterov
2013-06-04 21:35 ` Imre Deak
2013-06-04 21:40   ` Imre Deak
2013-06-05 16:37     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-06-05 19:07       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-06-06  1:45         ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-06 18:47           ` Oleg Nesterov

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