From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755749AbeDZKfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:35:36 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:51126 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755164AbeDZKeL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:34:11 -0400 From: Will Deacon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, longman@redhat.com, will.deacon@arm.com Subject: [PATCH v3 09/14] locking/qspinlock: Use smp_cond_load_relaxed to wait for next node Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:34:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1524738868-31318-10-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1524738868-31318-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> References: <1524738868-31318-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When a locker reaches the head of the queue and takes the lock, a concurrent locker may enqueue and force the lock holder to spin whilst its node->next field is initialised. Rather than open-code a READ_ONCE/cpu_relax() loop, this can be implemented using smp_cond_load_relaxed instead. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 5e383cfe4cce..7b8c81ebb15e 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -483,10 +483,8 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) /* * contended path; wait for next if not observed yet, release. */ - if (!next) { - while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next))) - cpu_relax(); - } + if (!next) + next = smp_cond_load_relaxed(&node->next, (VAL)); arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(&next->locked); pv_kick_node(lock, next); -- 2.1.4