Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3

[David S. Miller]

   From: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
   Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:20:42 -0800 (PST)

   Note that "in_interrupt()" will also trigger for callers that call from
   bh-atomic regions as well as actual BH handlers. Which is correct - they 
   are both "interrupt contexts" as far as most users should be concerned.
   
   The unix domain case may well be bh-atomic, I haven't looked at the code. 
   I'm pretty much certain that the TCP case _will_ be BH-atomic, even for 
   loopback.
   
   David?

Unix sockets use non-BH locks, there are no software interrupts
involved in AF_UNIX processing so no need to protect against them.

The actual wakeup comes from the socket callbacks, we use the
default data_ready() which is:

void sock_def_readable(struct sock *sk, int len)
{
        read_lock(&sk->callback_lock);
        if (sk->sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sleep))
		wake_up_interruptible(sk->sleep);
	sk_wake_async(sk,1,POLL_IN);
	read_unlock(&sk->callback_lock);
}

And for write wakeups Unix uses it's own, which is:

static void unix_write_space(struct sock *sk)
{
        read_lock(&sk->callback_lock);
        if (unix_writable(sk)) {
		if (sk->sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sleep))
                        wake_up_interruptible(sk->sleep);
                sk_wake_async(sk, 2, POLL_OUT);
        }
        read_unlock(&sk->callback_lock);
}

So, to reiterate, no BH locking is used by AF_UNIX.