Re: [PATCH] pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:07:15 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> wake_up(pipe->wr_wait) makes no sense if pipe_full() is still true after
> the reading, the writer sleeping in wait_event(wr_wait, pipe_writable())
> will check the pipe_writable() == !pipe_full() condition and sleep again.
> 
> Only wake the writer if we actually released a pipe buf, and the pipe was
> full before we did so.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.14.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.14.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.14.misc

[1/1] pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b004b4d254e7