On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 03:36:31PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On 11/17/20, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:15:12AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> >> On 11/17/20, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:09:19AM +0000, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> >> >> Author: mjg
> >> >> Date: Mon Nov 16 03:09:18 2020
> >> >> New Revision: 367713
> >> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367713
> >> >>
> >> >> Log:
> >> >>   select: replace reference counting with memory barriers in selfd
> >> >>
> >> >>   Refcounting was added to combat a race between selfdfree and
> >> >> doselwakup,
> >> >>   but it adds avoidable overhead.
> >> >>
> >> >>   selfdfree detects it can free the object by ->sf_si == NULL, thus we
> >> >> can
> >> >>   ensure that the condition only holds after all accesses are
> >> >> completed.
> >> >>
> >> >> Modified:
> >> >>   head/sys/kern/sys_generic.c
> >> >>
> >> >> Modified: head/sys/kern/sys_generic.c
> >> >> ==============================================================================
> >> >> --- head/sys/kern/sys_generic.c Sun Nov 15 22:49:28 2020        
> >> >> (r367712)
> >> >> +++ head/sys/kern/sys_generic.c Mon Nov 16 03:09:18 2020        
> >> >> (r367713)
> >> >> @@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ struct selfd {
> >> >>         struct mtx              *sf_mtx;        /* Pointer to selinfo 
> >> >> mtx. */
> >> >>         struct seltd            *sf_td;         /* (k) owning seltd. */
> >> >>         void                    *sf_cookie;     /* (k) fd or pollfd. */
> >> >> -       u_int                   sf_refs;
> >> >>  };
> >> >>
> >> >>  MALLOC_DEFINE(M_SELFD, "selfd", "selfd");
> >> >> @@ -1704,16 +1703,17 @@ static void
> >> >>  selfdfree(struct seltd *stp, struct selfd *sfp)
> >> >>  {
> >> >>         STAILQ_REMOVE(&stp->st_selq, sfp, selfd, sf_link);
> >> >> -       if (sfp->sf_si != NULL) {
> >> >> +       /*
> >> >> +        * Paired with doselwakeup.
> >> >> +        */
> >> >> +       if (atomic_load_acq_ptr((uintptr_t *)&sfp->sf_si) != 
> >> >> (uintptr_t)NULL)
> >> >> {
> >> > This could be != 0.
> >> >
> >> >>                 mtx_lock(sfp->sf_mtx);
> >> >>                 if (sfp->sf_si != NULL) {
> >> >>                         TAILQ_REMOVE(&sfp->sf_si->si_tdlist, sfp, 
> >> >> sf_threads);
> >> >> -                       refcount_release(&sfp->sf_refs);
> >> >>                 }
> >> >>                 mtx_unlock(sfp->sf_mtx);
> >> >>         }
> >> >> -       if (refcount_release(&sfp->sf_refs))
> >> >> -               free(sfp, M_SELFD);
> >> >> +       free(sfp, M_SELFD);
> >> > What guarantees that doselwakeup() finished with sfp ?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Release semantics provided by atomic_store_rel_ptr -- it means the
> >> NULL store is the last access, neither CPU nor the compiler are going
> >> to reorder preceding loads/stores past it.
> > It only guarantees that if we observed NULL as the result of load.
> >
> 
> If that did not happen selfdfree takes the lock. If the entry is still
> there, it removes it and doselwakeup will not see it after it takes
> the lock. If the entry is not there, doselwaekup is done with it
> because it released the lock.

I still do not understand it.  selfdfree() indeed takes sf_mtx and rechecks
sf_si.  But what prevents doselwakeup() to store NULL into sf_si at any
moment. e.g. after free() is done ? selfdfree() takes seltd mutex, not
selinfo.
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