From: "Ali Ahmet Memiş" <aliamemis@disroot.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: seq: Wait for one RCU grace period when deleting all ports
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:25:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261010222543.1470723-1-aliamemis@disroot.org> (raw)
Since the port list was converted to RCU, snd_seq_delete_all_ports()
calls synchronize_rcu() once per port under register_mutex. Closing a
client with 254 ports now takes about 1.6s and every other client
open or close waits for it.
Unlink all ports first, wait for a single grace period and then free
them.
Fixes: 4c252fbc06d6 ("ALSA: seq: Use RCU for the client port list")
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memiş <aliamemis@disroot.org>
---
Tested in QEMU on v7.3 with lockdep and KASAN. Closing a client
with 254 ports went from ~1.6s to ~0.02s, and a second client doing
open/close in a loop no longer stalls. Closing the client while other
clients send to and query its ports ran 100 rounds without reports.
sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
sound/core/seq/seq_ports.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c
index eb67eb0ee..b582d0344 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c
@@ -248,17 +248,9 @@ static void clear_subscriber_list(struct snd_seq_client *client,
}
/* delete port data */
-static int port_delete(struct snd_seq_client *client,
- struct snd_seq_client_port *port)
+static void port_free(struct snd_seq_client *client,
+ struct snd_seq_client_port *port)
{
- /* set closing flag and wait for all port access are gone */
- port->closing = 1;
- /* the port has already been unlinked from the client's port list;
- * wait for a grace period so that RCU readers still traversing the
- * list can no longer take a new use_lock reference, then drain the
- * outstanding references before freeing
- */
- synchronize_rcu();
snd_use_lock_sync(&port->use_lock);
/* clear subscribers info */
@@ -272,6 +264,20 @@ static int port_delete(struct snd_seq_client *client,
snd_BUG_ON(port->c_dest.count != 0);
kfree(port);
+}
+
+static int port_delete(struct snd_seq_client *client,
+ struct snd_seq_client_port *port)
+{
+ /* set closing flag and wait for all port access are gone */
+ port->closing = 1;
+ /* the port has already been unlinked from the client's port list;
+ * wait for a grace period so that RCU readers still traversing the
+ * list can no longer take a new use_lock reference, then drain the
+ * outstanding references before freeing
+ */
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ port_free(client, port);
return 0;
}
@@ -302,18 +308,25 @@ int snd_seq_delete_port(struct snd_seq_client *client, int port)
int snd_seq_delete_all_ports(struct snd_seq_client *client)
{
struct snd_seq_client_port *port, *tmp;
+ LIST_HEAD(deleted);
- /* unlink and delete each port; port_delete() waits for an RCU grace
- * period before draining the port, so concurrent lockless readers can
- * no longer take a new use_lock reference on it
+ /* unlink all ports first and wait for a single RCU grace period
+ * before draining and freeing them, so concurrent lockless readers
+ * can no longer take a new use_lock reference on any of them
*/
guard(mutex)(&client->ports_mutex);
list_for_each_entry_safe(port, tmp, &client->ports_list_head, list) {
list_del_rcu(&port->list);
client->num_ports--;
+ port->closing = 1;
+ list_add_tail(&port->delete_list, &deleted);
snd_seq_system_client_ev_port_exit(port->addr.client, port->addr.port);
- port_delete(client, port);
}
+ if (list_empty(&deleted))
+ return 0;
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(port, tmp, &deleted, delete_list)
+ port_free(client, port);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.h b/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.h
index 12ad86bf1..ef1787d6c 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.h
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_ports.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct snd_seq_client_port {
struct module *owner; /* owner of this port */
char name[64]; /* port name */
struct list_head list; /* port list */
+ struct list_head delete_list; /* used by snd_seq_delete_all_ports() */
snd_use_lock_t use_lock;
/* subscribers */
--
2.55.0
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