Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] locking/rwsem: Add a new RWSEM_ANONYMOUSLY_OWNED flag

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >
> > * Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This is confusingly written.  I think you mean ...
> > >
> > > 	if (!owner)
> > > 		goto done;
> > > 	if (!is_rwsem_owner_spinnable(owner)) {
> > > 		ret = false;
> > > 		goto done;
> > > 	}
> >
> > Yes, that's cleaner. Waiman, mind sending a followup patch that cleans this up?
> 
> Or simply
> 
> 	static inline bool owner_on_cpu(struct task_struct *owner)
> 	{
> 		return owner->on_cpu && !vcpu_is_preempted(task_cpu(owner));
> 	}
> 
> 	static inline bool rwsem_can_spin_on_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
> 	{
> 		struct task_struct *owner;
> 		bool ret = true;
> 
> 		if (need_resched())
> 			return false;
> 
> 		rcu_read_lock();
> 		owner = READ_ONCE(sem->owner);
> 		if (owner) {
> 			ret = is_rwsem_owner_spinnable(owner) &&
> 			      owner_on_cpu(owner);
> 		}
> 		rcu_read_unlock();
> 		return ret;
> 	}
> 
> note that rwsem_spin_on_owner() can use the new owner_on_cpu() helper too,
> 
> 		if (need_resched() || !owner_on_cpu(owner)) {
> 			rcu_read_unlock();
> 			return false;
> 		}
> 
> looks a bit better than the current code:
> 
> 		if (!owner->on_cpu || need_resched() ||
> 				vcpu_is_preempted(task_cpu(owner))) {
> 			rcu_read_unlock();
> 			return false;
> 		}
> 
> Oleg.

That looks good to me too - mind sending a patch on top of latest -tip?

Thanks,

	Ingo