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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2026-08-03 14:46:25 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-08-12 11:36:41 +0200
commitf1cebdec9739911cf066e6ce2e02c511f0d124d5 (patch)
treecd3804a37ab0788e567c9a36262eeb4d09f04dd2
parent9688a46802939da28f00cb40e8129615d5d4af39 (diff)
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pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
pipe_poll() unconditionally sets ->poll_usage on the first call, forcing anon_pipe_write() to wake up readers on every write even if the pipe was not empty. The reason is that some legacy epoll(EPOLLET) users depend on historical per-write wakeups, see commit 3a34b13a88ca ("pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readers"). Test-case: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/epoll.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { int pfd[2], efd; struct epoll_event evt = { .events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET }; pipe(pfd); efd = epoll_create1(0); epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, pfd[0], &evt); for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) { write(pfd[1], "", 1); assert(epoll_wait(efd, &evt, 1, 0) == 1); } return 0; } it fails if WRITE_ONCE(poll_usage, true) is removed from pipe_poll(). However, without EPOLLET in .events, it does not need the extra wakeup and succeeds even if write() is called only once before the main loop. Currently io_uring without (unsupported) IORING_POLL_ADD_LEVEL always sets EPOLLET, and in IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI mode it depends on per-write wakeups the same way: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/epoll.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <linux/io_uring.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { struct io_uring_params p = {}; int fd, pfd[2]; pipe(pfd); fd = syscall(SYS_io_uring_setup, 2, &p); assert(fd >= 0); void *ring = mmap(0, p.cq_off.cqes + p.cq_entries * sizeof(struct io_uring_cqe), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, IORING_OFF_SQ_RING); assert(ring != MAP_FAILED); *(unsigned *)(ring + p.sq_off.tail) = 1; struct io_uring_sqe *sqes = mmap(0, p.sq_entries * sizeof(*sqes), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, IORING_OFF_SQES); assert(sqes != MAP_FAILED); sqes[0].opcode = IORING_OP_POLL_ADD; sqes[0].fd = pfd[0]; sqes[0].len = IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI; sqes[0].poll32_events = EPOLLIN; syscall(SYS_io_uring_enter, fd, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); unsigned *cq_head = ring + p.cq_off.head; unsigned *cq_tail = ring + p.cq_off.tail; for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) { write(pfd[1], "", 1); syscall(SYS_io_uring_enter, fd, 0, 0, IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS, 0, 0); assert(*cq_tail == ++*cq_head); } return 0; } the 2nd assert() in the main loop fails without ->poll_usage == true. Rename ->poll_usage to ->pseudo_edgetrigger to make the purpose clearer, update the comments, and change pipe_poll() to set ->pseudo_edgetrigger only if wait->_key & EPOLLET is true. This check should catch both users, and this way poll/select and epoll without EPOLLET users will not pay for the extra wakeup. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/anCNoW-x0bcB2ggg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c20
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 3c6061cefe79..0c77191a050c 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -665,10 +665,9 @@ out:
* how (for example) the GNU make jobserver uses small writes to
* wake up pending jobs
*
- * Epoll nonsensically wants a wakeup whether the pipe
- * was already empty or not.
+ * ->pseudo_edgetrigger enables per-write wakeups, see pipe_poll()
*/
- if (was_empty || pipe->poll_usage)
+ if (was_empty || READ_ONCE(pipe->pseudo_edgetrigger))
wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->rd_wait, EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM);
kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
if (wake_next_writer)
@@ -731,7 +730,6 @@ static long pipe_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
}
}
-/* No kernel lock held - fine */
static __poll_t
pipe_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
{
@@ -739,9 +737,17 @@ pipe_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = filp->private_data;
union pipe_index idx;
- /* Epoll has some historical nasty semantics, this enables them */
- if (unlikely(!READ_ONCE(pipe->poll_usage)))
- WRITE_ONCE(pipe->poll_usage, true);
+ /*
+ * Legacy epoll(EPOLLET) users depend on historical per-write wakeups,
+ * see 3a34b13a88ca ("pipe: make pipe writes always wake up readers")
+ * and the ->pseudo_edgetrigger check in anon_pipe_write().
+ * Currently io_uring sets EPOLLET for multishot polls, so it gets the
+ * same behaviour.
+ */
+ if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_READ) &&
+ wait && (wait->_key & EPOLLET) &&
+ unlikely(!READ_ONCE(pipe->pseudo_edgetrigger)))
+ WRITE_ONCE(pipe->pseudo_edgetrigger, true);
/*
* Reading pipe state only -- no need for acquiring the semaphore.
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 9e8b60ad806a..6402930282e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct anon_pipe_prealloc {
* @files: number of struct file referring this pipe (protected by ->i_lock)
* @r_counter: reader counter
* @w_counter: writer counter
- * @poll_usage: is this pipe used for epoll, which has crazy wakeups?
+ * @pseudo_edgetrigger: has an EPOLLET consumer, enable per-write wakeups
* @fasync_readers: reader side fasync
* @fasync_writers: writer side fasync
* @bufs: the circular array of pipe buffers
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct pipe_inode_info {
unsigned int files;
unsigned int r_counter;
unsigned int w_counter;
- bool poll_usage;
+ bool pseudo_edgetrigger;
#ifdef CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
bool note_loss;
#endif