[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/interrupts: add function to allow interruptible epoll

[Stephen Hemminger]

The existing definition of rte_epoll_wait retries if interrupted
by a signal. This behavior makes it hard to use rte_epoll_wait
for applications that want to use signals do do things like
exit polling loop and shutdown.

Since changing existing semantic might break applications, add
a new rte_epoll_wait_interruptible() function that does the
same thing as rte_epoll_wait but will return -1 and errno of EINTR
if it receives a signal.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>
---
v2 -- rebase onto current code organization
      simplify logic to make it clear how common the code is

      Note: the documentation of the new version is intentionally the
      the same as the original one.

 lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c     | 12 +++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c       | 28 +++++++++++++++++----
 lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map          |  3 +++
 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c
index 6d53d33c81a9..b07cff639318 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -684,6 +684,18 @@ rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
 	return -ENOTSUP;
 }
 
+int
+rte_epoll_wait_interruptible(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
+			     int maxevents, int timeout)
+{
+	RTE_SET_USED(epfd);
+	RTE_SET_USED(events);
+	RTE_SET_USED(maxevents);
+	RTE_SET_USED(timeout);
+
+	return -ENOTSUP;
+}
+
 int
 rte_epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct rte_epoll_event *event)
 {
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h b/lib/librte_eal/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h
index b1e8a2934e78..7d808a22624a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ struct rte_intr_handle {
 
 /**
  * It waits for events on the epoll instance.
+ * Retries if signal received.
  *
  * @param epfd
  *   Epoll instance fd on which the caller wait for events.
@@ -105,6 +106,28 @@ int
 rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
 	       int maxevents, int timeout);
 
+/**
+ * It waits for events on the epoll instance.
+ * Does not retry if signal received.
+ *
+ * @param epfd
+ *   Epoll instance fd on which the caller wait for events.
+ * @param events
+ *   Memory area contains the events that will be available for the caller.
+ * @param maxevents
+ *   Up to maxevents are returned, must greater than zero.
+ * @param timeout
+ *   Specifying a timeout of -1 causes a block indefinitely.
+ *   Specifying a timeout equal to zero cause to return immediately.
+ * @return
+ *   - On success, returns the number of available event.
+ *   - On failure, a negative value.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int
+rte_epoll_wait_interruptible(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
+	       int maxevents, int timeout);
+
 /**
  * It performs control operations on epoll instance referred by the epfd.
  * It requests that the operation op be performed for the target fd.
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
index 13db5c4e8aee..26b5dd4ca86b 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -1275,9 +1275,9 @@ rte_intr_tls_epfd(void)
 	return RTE_PER_LCORE(_epfd);
 }
 
-int
-rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
-	       int maxevents, int timeout)
+static int
+eal_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
+	       int maxevents, int timeout, bool interruptible)
 {
 	struct epoll_event evs[maxevents];
 	int rc;
@@ -1298,8 +1298,12 @@ rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
 			rc = eal_epoll_process_event(evs, rc, events);
 			break;
 		} else if (rc < 0) {
-			if (errno == EINTR)
-				continue;
+			if (errno == EINTR) {
+				if (interruptible)
+					return -1;
+				else
+					continue;
+			}
 			/* epoll_wait fail */
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "epoll_wait returns with fail %s\n",
 				strerror(errno));
@@ -1314,6 +1318,20 @@ rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
 	return rc;
 }
 
+int
+rte_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
+	       int maxevents, int timeout)
+{
+	return eal_epoll_wait(epfd, events, maxevents, timeout, false);
+}
+
+int
+rte_epoll_wait_interruptible(int epfd, struct rte_epoll_event *events,
+			     int maxevents, int timeout)
+{
+	return eal_epoll_wait(epfd, events, maxevents, timeout, true);
+}
+
 static inline void
 eal_epoll_data_safe_free(struct rte_epoll_event *ev)
 {
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map b/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
index 0b18e2ef85f9..a31a7cf5791a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map
@@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
 	rte_mp_disable;
 	rte_thread_register;
 	rte_thread_unregister;
+
+	# added in 20.11
+	rte_epoll_wait_interruptible;
 };
 
 INTERNAL {
-- 
2.27.0