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commite386dfc56fupstream. Commit054aa8d439("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.