This patch seems to fix my issue with ppoll() being stuck on my
SMP machine: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/70414

The change to sock_poll_wait() in
commit 626cf236608505d376e4799adb4f7eb00a8594af
  (poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions)
seems to have allowed additional cases where the SMP memory barrier
is not issued before checking for readiness.

In my case, this affects the select()-family of functions
which register descriptors once and set _qproc to NULL before
checking events again (after poll_schedule_timeout() returns).
The set_mb() barrier in poll_schedule_timeout() appears to be
insufficient on my SMP x86-64 machine (as it's only an xchg()).

This may also be related to the epoll issue described by
Andreas Voellmy in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <redacted>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <redacted>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <redacted>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <redacted>
Cc: Hans de Goede <redacted>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <redacted>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Voellmy <redacted>
Cc: "Junchang(Jason) Wang" <redacted>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
 If this patch is correct, I think we can just drop the
 poll_does_not_wait() function entirely since poll_wait()
 does the same check anyways...

 include/net/sock.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index c945fba..1923e48 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h

@@ -1925,8 +1925,9 @@ static inline bool wq_has_sleeper(struct socket_wq *wq)
 static inline void sock_poll_wait(struct file *filp,
 		wait_queue_head_t *wait_address, poll_table *p)
 {
-	if (!poll_does_not_wait(p) && wait_address) {
-		poll_wait(filp, wait_address, p);
+	if (wait_address) {
+		if (!poll_does_not_wait(p))
+			poll_wait(filp, wait_address, p);
 		/* We need to be sure we are in sync with the
 		 * socket flags modification.
 		 *

-- 
Eric Wong