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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index f5b0e59f6d14..a0f7976348f8 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -77,6 +77,18 @@ #endif /* + * The pending bit spinning loop count. + * This heuristic is used to limit the number of lockword accesses + * made by atomic_cond_read_relaxed when waiting for the lock to + * transition out of the "== _Q_PENDING_VAL" state. We don't spin + * indefinitely because there's no guarantee that we'll make forward + * progress. + */ +#ifndef _Q_PENDING_LOOPS +#define _Q_PENDING_LOOPS 1 +#endif + +/* * Per-CPU queue node structures; we can never have more than 4 nested * contexts: task, softirq, hardirq, nmi. * @@ -266,13 +278,15 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) return; /* - * wait for in-progress pending->locked hand-overs + * Wait for in-progress pending->locked hand-overs with a bounded + * number of spins so that we guarantee forward progress. * * 0,1,0 -> 0,0,1 */ if (val == _Q_PENDING_VAL) { - while ((val = atomic_read(&lock->val)) == _Q_PENDING_VAL) - cpu_relax(); + int cnt = _Q_PENDING_LOOPS; + val = atomic_cond_read_relaxed(&lock->val, + (VAL != _Q_PENDING_VAL) || !cnt--); } /* |