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1 /*
2 * libev linux aio fd activity backend
3 *
4 * Copyright (c) 2019 Marc Alexander Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>
5 * All rights reserved.
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38 */
39
40 /*
41 * general notes about linux aio:
42 *
43 * a) at first, the linux aio IOCB_CMD_POLL functionality introduced in
44 * 4.18 looks too good to be true: both watchers and events can be
45 * batched, and events can even be handled in userspace using
46 * a ring buffer shared with the kernel. watchers can be canceled
47 * regardless of whether the fd has been closed. no problems with fork.
48 * ok, the ring buffer is 200% undocumented (there isn't even a
49 * header file), but otherwise, it's pure bliss!
50 * b) ok, watchers are one-shot, so you have to re-arm active ones
51 * on every iteration. so much for syscall-less event handling,
52 * but at least these re-arms can be batched, no big deal, right?
53 * c) well, linux as usual: the documentation lies to you: io_submit
54 * sometimes returns EINVAL because the kernel doesn't feel like
55 * handling your poll mask - ttys can be polled for POLLOUT,
56 * POLLOUT|POLLIN, but polling for POLLIN fails. just great,
57 * so we have to fall back to something else (hello, epoll),
58 * but at least the fallback can be slow, because these are
59 * exceptional cases, right?
60 * d) hmm, you have to tell the kernel the maximum number of watchers
61 * you want to queue when initialising the aio context. but of
62 * course the real limit is magically calculated in the kernel, and
63 * is often higher then we asked for. so we just have to destroy
64 * the aio context and re-create it a bit larger if we hit the limit.
65 * (starts to remind you of epoll? well, it's a bit more deterministic
66 * and less gambling, but still ugly as hell).
67 * e) that's when you find out you can also hit an arbitrary system-wide
68 * limit. or the kernel simply doesn't want to handle your watchers.
69 * what the fuck do we do then? you guessed it, in the middle
70 * of event handling we have to switch to 100% epoll polling. and
71 * that better is as fast as normal epoll polling, so you practically
72 * have to use the normal epoll backend with all its quirks.
73 * f) end result of this train wreck: it inherits all the disadvantages
74 * from epoll, while adding a number on its own. why even bother to use
75 * it? because if conditions are right and your fds are supported and you
76 * don't hit a limit, this backend is actually faster, doesn't gamble with
77 * your fds, batches watchers and events and doesn't require costly state
78 * recreates. well, until it does.
79 * g) all of this makes this backend use almost twice as much code as epoll.
80 * which in turn uses twice as much code as poll. and that#s not counting
81 * the fact that this backend also depends on the epoll backend, making
82 * it three times as much code as poll, or kqueue.
83 * h) bleah. why can't linux just do kqueue. sure kqueue is ugly, but by now
84 * it's clear that whatever linux comes up with is far, far, far worse.
85 */
86
87 #include <sys/time.h> /* actually linux/time.h, but we must assume they are compatible */
88 #include <poll.h>
89 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
90
91 /*****************************************************************************/
92 /* syscall wrapdadoop - this section has the raw api/abi definitions */
93
94 #include <sys/syscall.h> /* no glibc wrappers */
95
96 /* aio_abi.h is not versioned in any way, so we cannot test for its existance */
97 #define IOCB_CMD_POLL 5
98
99 /* taken from linux/fs/aio.c. yup, that's a .c file.
100 * not only is this totally undocumented, not even the source code
101 * can tell you what the future semantics of compat_features and
102 * incompat_features are, or what header_length actually is for.
103 */
104 #define AIO_RING_MAGIC 0xa10a10a1
105 #define EV_AIO_RING_INCOMPAT_FEATURES 0
106 struct aio_ring
107 {
108 unsigned id; /* kernel internal index number */
109 unsigned nr; /* number of io_events */
110 unsigned head; /* Written to by userland or by kernel. */
111 unsigned tail;
112
113 unsigned magic;
114 unsigned compat_features;
115 unsigned incompat_features;
116 unsigned header_length; /* size of aio_ring */
117
118 struct io_event io_events[0];
119 };
120
121 inline_size
122 int
123 evsys_io_setup (unsigned nr_events, aio_context_t *ctx_idp)
124 {
125 return ev_syscall2 (SYS_io_setup, nr_events, ctx_idp);
126 }
127
128 inline_size
129 int
130 evsys_io_destroy (aio_context_t ctx_id)
131 {
132 return ev_syscall1 (SYS_io_destroy, ctx_id);
133 }
134
135 inline_size
136 int
137 evsys_io_submit (aio_context_t ctx_id, long nr, struct iocb *cbp[])
138 {
139 return ev_syscall3 (SYS_io_submit, ctx_id, nr, cbp);
140 }
141
142 inline_size
143 int
144 evsys_io_cancel (aio_context_t ctx_id, struct iocb *cbp, struct io_event *result)
145 {
146 return ev_syscall3 (SYS_io_cancel, ctx_id, cbp, result);
147 }
148
149 inline_size
150 int
151 evsys_io_getevents (aio_context_t ctx_id, long min_nr, long nr, struct io_event *events, struct timespec *timeout)
152 {
153 return ev_syscall5 (SYS_io_getevents, ctx_id, min_nr, nr, events, timeout);
154 }
155
156 /*****************************************************************************/
157 /* actual backed implementation */
158
159 ecb_cold
160 static int
161 linuxaio_nr_events (EV_P)
162 {
163 /* we start with 16 iocbs and incraese from there
164 * that's tiny, but the kernel has a rather low system-wide
165 * limit that can be reached quickly, so let's be parsimonious
166 * with this resource.
167 * Rest assured, the kernel generously rounds up small and big numbers
168 * in different ways (but doesn't seem to charge you for it).
169 * The 15 here is because the kernel usually has a power of two as aio-max-nr,
170 * and this helps to take advantage of that limit.
171 */
172
173 /* we try to fill 4kB pages exactly.
174 * the ring buffer header is 32 bytes, every io event is 32 bytes.
175 * the kernel takes the io requests number, doubles it, adds 2
176 * and adds the ring buffer.
177 * the way we use this is by starting low, and then roughly doubling the
178 * size each time we hit a limit.
179 */
180
181 int requests = 15 << linuxaio_iteration;
182 int one_page = (4096
183 / sizeof (struct io_event) ) / 2; /* how many fit into one page */
184 int first_page = ((4096 - sizeof (struct aio_ring))
185 / sizeof (struct io_event) - 2) / 2; /* how many fit into the first page */
186
187 /* if everything fits into one page, use count exactly */
188 if (requests > first_page)
189 /* otherwise, round down to full pages and add the first page */
190 requests = requests / one_page * one_page + first_page;
191
192 return requests;
193 }
194
195 /* we use out own wrapper structure in case we ever want to do something "clever" */
196 typedef struct aniocb
197 {
198 struct iocb io;
199 /*int inuse;*/
200 } *ANIOCBP;
201
202 inline_size
203 void
204 linuxaio_array_needsize_iocbp (ANIOCBP *base, int offset, int count)
205 {
206 while (count--)
207 {
208 /* TODO: quite the overhead to allocate every iocb separately, maybe use our own allocator? */
209 ANIOCBP iocb = (ANIOCBP)ev_malloc (sizeof (*iocb));
210
211 /* full zero initialise is probably not required at the moment, but
212 * this is not well documented, so we better do it.
213 */
214 memset (iocb, 0, sizeof (*iocb));
215
216 iocb->io.aio_lio_opcode = IOCB_CMD_POLL;
217 iocb->io.aio_data = offset;
218 iocb->io.aio_fildes = offset;
219
220 base [offset++] = iocb;
221 }
222 }
223
224 ecb_cold
225 static void
226 linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_P)
227 {
228 while (linuxaio_iocbpmax--)
229 ev_free (linuxaio_iocbps [linuxaio_iocbpmax]);
230
231 linuxaio_iocbpmax = 0; /* next resize will completely reallocate the array, at some overhead */
232 }
233
234 static void
235 linuxaio_modify (EV_P_ int fd, int oev, int nev)
236 {
237 array_needsize (ANIOCBP, linuxaio_iocbps, linuxaio_iocbpmax, fd + 1, linuxaio_array_needsize_iocbp);
238 ANIOCBP iocb = linuxaio_iocbps [fd];
239
240 if (ecb_expect_false (iocb->io.aio_reqprio < 0))
241 {
242 /* we handed this fd over to epoll, so undo this first */
243 /* we do it manually because the optimisations on epoll_modify won't do us any good */
244 epoll_ctl (backend_fd, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, fd, 0);
245 anfds [fd].emask = 0;
246 iocb->io.aio_reqprio = 0;
247 }
248
249 if (ecb_expect_false (iocb->io.aio_buf))
250 {
251 /* iocb active, so cancel it first before resubmit */
252 for (;;)
253 {
254 /* on all relevant kernels, io_cancel fails with EINPROGRESS on "success" */
255 if (ecb_expect_false (evsys_io_cancel (linuxaio_ctx, &iocb->io, (struct io_event *)0) == 0))
256 break;
257
258 if (ecb_expect_true (errno == EINPROGRESS))
259 break;
260
261 /* the EINPROGRESS test is for nicer error message. clumsy. */
262 assert (("libev: linuxaio unexpected io_cancel failed", errno != EINPROGRESS && errno != EINTR));
263 }
264 }
265
266 iocb->io.aio_buf =
267 (nev & EV_READ ? POLLIN : 0)
268 | (nev & EV_WRITE ? POLLOUT : 0);
269
270 if (nev)
271 {
272 /* queue iocb up for io_submit */
273 /* this assumes we only ever get one call per fd per loop iteration */
274 ++linuxaio_submitcnt;
275 array_needsize (struct iocb *, linuxaio_submits, linuxaio_submitmax, linuxaio_submitcnt, array_needsize_noinit);
276 linuxaio_submits [linuxaio_submitcnt - 1] = &iocb->io;
277 }
278 }
279
280 static void
281 linuxaio_epoll_cb (EV_P_ struct ev_io *w, int revents)
282 {
283 epoll_poll (EV_A_ 0);
284 }
285
286 inline_speed
287 void
288 linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_P_ int fd)
289 {
290 anfds [fd].events = 0;
291 linuxaio_iocbps [fd]->io.aio_buf = 0;
292 fd_change (EV_A_ fd, EV_ANFD_REIFY);
293 }
294
295 static void
296 linuxaio_parse_events (EV_P_ struct io_event *ev, int nr)
297 {
298 while (nr)
299 {
300 int fd = ev->data;
301 int res = ev->res;
302
303 assert (("libev: iocb fd must be in-bounds", fd >= 0 && fd < anfdmax));
304
305 /* feed events, we do not expect or handle POLLNVAL */
306 fd_event (
307 EV_A_
308 fd,
309 (res & (POLLOUT | POLLERR | POLLHUP) ? EV_WRITE : 0)
310 | (res & (POLLIN | POLLERR | POLLHUP) ? EV_READ : 0)
311 );
312
313 /* linux aio is oneshot: rearm fd. TODO: this does more work than strictly needed */
314 linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_A_ fd);
315
316 --nr;
317 ++ev;
318 }
319 }
320
321 /* get any events from ring buffer, return true if any were handled */
322 static int
323 linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_P)
324 {
325 struct aio_ring *ring = (struct aio_ring *)linuxaio_ctx;
326 unsigned head, tail;
327
328 /* the kernel reads and writes both of these variables, */
329 /* as a C extension, we assume that volatile use here */
330 /* both makes reads atomic and once-only */
331 head = *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->head;
332 ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_ACQUIRE;
333 tail = *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->tail;
334
335 if (head == tail)
336 return 0;
337
338 /* parse all available events, but only once, to avoid starvation */
339 if (ecb_expect_true (tail > head)) /* normal case around */
340 linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events + head, tail - head);
341 else /* wrapped around */
342 {
343 linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events + head, ring->nr - head);
344 linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events, tail);
345 }
346
347 ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE;
348 /* as an extension to C, we hope that the volatile will make this atomic and once-only */
349 *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->head = tail;
350
351 return 1;
352 }
353
354 inline_size
355 int
356 linuxaio_ringbuf_valid (EV_P)
357 {
358 struct aio_ring *ring = (struct aio_ring *)linuxaio_ctx;
359
360 return ecb_expect_true (ring->magic == AIO_RING_MAGIC)
361 && ring->incompat_features == EV_AIO_RING_INCOMPAT_FEATURES
362 && ring->header_length == sizeof (struct aio_ring); /* TODO: or use it to find io_event[0]? */
363 }
364
365 /* read at least one event from kernel, or timeout */
366 inline_size
367 void
368 linuxaio_get_events (EV_P_ ev_tstamp timeout)
369 {
370 struct timespec ts;
371 struct io_event ioev[8]; /* 256 octet stack space */
372 int want = 1; /* how many events to request */
373 int ringbuf_valid = linuxaio_ringbuf_valid (EV_A);
374
375 if (ecb_expect_true (ringbuf_valid))
376 {
377 /* if the ring buffer has any events, we don't wait or call the kernel at all */
378 if (linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_A))
379 return;
380
381 /* if the ring buffer is empty, and we don't have a timeout, then don't call the kernel */
382 if (!timeout)
383 return;
384 }
385 else
386 /* no ringbuffer, request slightly larger batch */
387 want = sizeof (ioev) / sizeof (ioev [0]);
388
389 /* no events, so wait for some
390 * for fairness reasons, we do this in a loop, to fetch all events
391 */
392 for (;;)
393 {
394 int res;
395
396 EV_RELEASE_CB;
397
398 EV_TS_SET (ts, timeout);
399 res = evsys_io_getevents (linuxaio_ctx, 1, want, ioev, &ts);
400
401 EV_ACQUIRE_CB;
402
403 if (res < 0)
404 if (errno == EINTR)
405 /* ignored, retry */;
406 else
407 ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_getevents");
408 else if (res)
409 {
410 /* at least one event available, handle them */
411 linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ioev, res);
412
413 if (ecb_expect_true (ringbuf_valid))
414 {
415 /* if we have a ring buffer, handle any remaining events in it */
416 linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_A);
417
418 /* at this point, we should have handled all outstanding events */
419 break;
420 }
421 else if (res < want)
422 /* otherwise, if there were fewere events than we wanted, we assume there are no more */
423 break;
424 }
425 else
426 break; /* no events from the kernel, we are done */
427
428 timeout = 0; /* only wait in the first iteration */
429 }
430 }
431
432 inline_size
433 int
434 linuxaio_io_setup (EV_P)
435 {
436 linuxaio_ctx = 0;
437 return evsys_io_setup (linuxaio_nr_events (EV_A), &linuxaio_ctx);
438 }
439
440 static void
441 linuxaio_poll (EV_P_ ev_tstamp timeout)
442 {
443 int submitted;
444
445 /* first phase: submit new iocbs */
446
447 /* io_submit might return less than the requested number of iocbs */
448 /* this is, afaics, only because of errors, but we go by the book and use a loop, */
449 /* which allows us to pinpoint the erroneous iocb */
450 for (submitted = 0; submitted < linuxaio_submitcnt; )
451 {
452 int res = evsys_io_submit (linuxaio_ctx, linuxaio_submitcnt - submitted, linuxaio_submits + submitted);
453
454 if (ecb_expect_false (res < 0))
455 if (errno == EINVAL)
456 {
457 /* This happens for unsupported fds, officially, but in my testing,
458 * also randomly happens for supported fds. We fall back to good old
459 * poll() here, under the assumption that this is a very rare case.
460 * See https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1047453/ to see
461 * discussion about such a case (ttys) where polling for POLLIN
462 * fails but POLLIN|POLLOUT works.
463 */
464 struct iocb *iocb = linuxaio_submits [submitted];
465 epoll_modify (EV_A_ iocb->aio_fildes, 0, anfds [iocb->aio_fildes].events);
466 iocb->aio_reqprio = -1; /* mark iocb as epoll */
467
468 res = 1; /* skip this iocb - another iocb, another chance */
469 }
470 else if (errno == EAGAIN)
471 {
472 /* This happens when the ring buffer is full, or some other shit we
473 * don't know and isn't documented. Most likely because we have too
474 * many requests and linux aio can't be assed to handle them.
475 * In this case, we try to allocate a larger ring buffer, freeing
476 * ours first. This might fail, in which case we have to fall back to 100%
477 * epoll.
478 * God, how I hate linux not getting its act together. Ever.
479 */
480 evsys_io_destroy (linuxaio_ctx);
481 linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
482
483 /* rearm all fds with active iocbs */
484 {
485 int fd;
486 for (fd = 0; fd < linuxaio_iocbpmax; ++fd)
487 if (linuxaio_iocbps [fd]->io.aio_buf)
488 linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_A_ fd);
489 }
490
491 ++linuxaio_iteration;
492 if (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
493 {
494 /* TODO: rearm all and recreate epoll backend from scratch */
495 /* TODO: might be more prudent? */
496
497 /* to bad, we can't get a new aio context, go 100% epoll */
498 linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_A);
499 ev_io_stop (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
500 ev_ref (EV_A);
501 linuxaio_ctx = 0;
502
503 backend = EVBACKEND_EPOLL;
504 backend_modify = epoll_modify;
505 backend_poll = epoll_poll;
506 }
507
508 timeout = 0;
509 /* it's easiest to handle this mess in another iteration */
510 return;
511 }
512 else if (errno == EBADF)
513 {
514 assert (("libev: event loop rejected bad fd", errno != EBADF));
515 fd_kill (EV_A_ linuxaio_submits [submitted]->aio_fildes);
516
517 res = 1; /* skip this iocb */
518 }
519 else if (errno == EINTR) /* not seen in reality, not documented */
520 res = 0; /* silently ignore and retry */
521 else
522 {
523 ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_submit");
524 res = 0;
525 }
526
527 submitted += res;
528 }
529
530 linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
531
532 /* second phase: fetch and parse events */
533
534 linuxaio_get_events (EV_A_ timeout);
535 }
536
537 inline_size
538 int
539 linuxaio_init (EV_P_ int flags)
540 {
541 /* would be great to have a nice test for IOCB_CMD_POLL instead */
542 /* also: test some semi-common fd types, such as files and ttys in recommended_backends */
543 /* 4.18 introduced IOCB_CMD_POLL, 4.19 made epoll work, and we need that */
544 if (ev_linux_version () < 0x041300)
545 return 0;
546
547 if (!epoll_init (EV_A_ 0))
548 return 0;
549
550 linuxaio_iteration = 0;
551
552 if (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
553 {
554 epoll_destroy (EV_A);
555 return 0;
556 }
557
558 ev_io_init (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w, linuxaio_epoll_cb, backend_fd, EV_READ);
559 ev_set_priority (&linuxaio_epoll_w, EV_MAXPRI);
560 ev_io_start (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
561 ev_unref (EV_A); /* watcher should not keep loop alive */
562
563 backend_modify = linuxaio_modify;
564 backend_poll = linuxaio_poll;
565
566 linuxaio_iocbpmax = 0;
567 linuxaio_iocbps = 0;
568
569 linuxaio_submits = 0;
570 linuxaio_submitmax = 0;
571 linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
572
573 return EVBACKEND_LINUXAIO;
574 }
575
576 inline_size
577 void
578 linuxaio_destroy (EV_P)
579 {
580 epoll_destroy (EV_A);
581 linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_A);
582 evsys_io_destroy (linuxaio_ctx); /* fails in child, aio context is destroyed */
583 }
584
585 ecb_cold
586 static void
587 linuxaio_fork (EV_P)
588 {
589 /* this frees all iocbs, which is very heavy-handed */
590 linuxaio_destroy (EV_A);
591 linuxaio_submitcnt = 0; /* all pointers were invalidated */
592
593 linuxaio_iteration = 0; /* we start over in the child */
594
595 while (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
596 ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_setup");
597
598 /* forking epoll should also effectively unregister all fds from the backend */
599 epoll_fork (EV_A);
600 /* epoll_fork already did this. hopefully */
601 /*fd_rearm_all (EV_A);*/
602
603 ev_io_stop (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
604 ev_io_set (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w, backend_fd, EV_READ);
605 ev_io_start (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
606 }
607