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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2017-10-12 15:20:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-10-25 11:57:25 +0300 |
| commit | d133166146333e1f13fc81c0e6c43c8d99290a8a (patch) | |
| tree | 538bbeeec8c861d98478704af79ee42dfbb95dea /include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | |
| parent | 087133ac90763cd339b6b67f2998f87dcc136c52 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d133166146333e1f13fc81c0e6c43c8d99290a8a.tar.xz | |
locking/qrwlock: Prevent slowpath writers getting held up by fastpath
When a prospective writer takes the qrwlock locking slowpath due to the
lock being held, it attempts to cmpxchg the wmode field from 0 to
_QW_WAITING so that concurrent lockers also take the slowpath and queue
on the spinlock accordingly, allowing the lockers to drain.
Unfortunately, this isn't fair, because a fastpath writer that comes in
after the lock is made available but before the _QW_WAITING flag is set
can effectively jump the queue. If there is a steady stream of prospective
writers, then the waiter will be held off indefinitely.
This patch restores fairness by separating _QW_WAITING and _QW_LOCKED
into two distinct fields: _QW_LOCKED continues to occupy the bottom byte
of the lockword so that it can be cleared unconditionally when unlocking,
but _QW_WAITING now occupies what used to be the bottom bit of the reader
count. This then forces the slow-path for concurrent lockers.
Tested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Tested-by: Adam Wallis <awallis@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-6-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h index c716b02e8fd7..0f7062bd55e5 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h @@ -26,24 +26,11 @@ /* * Writer states & reader shift and bias. - * - * | +0 | +1 | +2 | +3 | - * ----+----+----+----+----+ - * LE | 78 | 56 | 34 | 12 | 0x12345678 - * ----+----+----+----+----+ - * | wr | rd | - * +----+----+----+----+ - * - * ----+----+----+----+----+ - * BE | 12 | 34 | 56 | 78 | 0x12345678 - * ----+----+----+----+----+ - * | rd | wr | - * +----+----+----+----+ */ -#define _QW_WAITING 1 /* A writer is waiting */ -#define _QW_LOCKED 0xff /* A writer holds the lock */ -#define _QW_WMASK 0xff /* Writer mask */ -#define _QR_SHIFT 8 /* Reader count shift */ +#define _QW_WAITING 0x100 /* A writer is waiting */ +#define _QW_LOCKED 0x0ff /* A writer holds the lock */ +#define _QW_WMASK 0x1ff /* Writer mask */ +#define _QR_SHIFT 9 /* Reader count shift */ #define _QR_BIAS (1U << _QR_SHIFT) /* @@ -134,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void queued_read_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock) */ static inline void queued_write_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock) { - smp_store_release(&lock->wmode, 0); + smp_store_release(&lock->wlocked, 0); } /* |