epoll: edge-triggered descriptors lost their edges on more than one CPU

EPOLLET reported a descriptor again only after a scan had seen it not
ready. Xorg watches its clients edge-triggered; when it read part of a
client's requests and more arrived before its next scan, the socket never
looked not-ready, so it was never reported again -- X waiting on the
client, the client waiting on X. One CPU almost never hit it; on a 16-thread
laptop the desktop froze within seconds: Window Maker's menu stuck, xterm
never mapped, text gone, and Caps Lock dead because X owns the LED.

Now a still-ready descriptor is reported again whenever anything has
signalled readiness since its last report (poll_generation()), which may be
spurious, as EPOLLET permits, and is never missed. Reproduced and verified
with QEMU at -smp 8: the root menu works and xterm runs cmatrix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4
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Nexoniarz 2026-10-25 11:59:12 +01:00
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@ -735,6 +735,7 @@ int net_detach(struct device *);
int net_attach_late(struct device *);
int net_eth_poll(void);
void net_eth_link_check(void);
uint poll_generation(void);
int net_eth_count(void);
void net_eth_counts(int i, uint64 *rx, uint64 *tx);
struct netif *net_eth_netif(int i);