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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-10-12 13:20:51 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-10-25 10:57:25 +0200
commitd133166146333e1f13fc81c0e6c43c8d99290a8a (patch)
tree538bbeeec8c861d98478704af79ee42dfbb95dea /kernel/locking
parent087133ac90763cd339b6b67f2998f87dcc136c52 (diff)
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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 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qrwlock.c20
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
index 5825e0fc1a8e..c7471c3fb798 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ void queued_read_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
* so spin with ACQUIRE semantics until the lock is available
* without waiting in the queue.
*/
- atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, (VAL & _QW_WMASK)
- != _QW_LOCKED);
+ atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, !(VAL & _QW_LOCKED));
return;
}
atomic_sub(_QR_BIAS, &lock->cnts);
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ void queued_read_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
* that accesses can't leak upwards out of our subsequent critical
* section in the case that the lock is currently held for write.
*/
- atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, (VAL & _QW_WMASK) != _QW_LOCKED);
+ atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, !(VAL & _QW_LOCKED));
/*
* Signal the next one in queue to become queue head
@@ -79,19 +78,10 @@ void queued_write_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
(atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->cnts, 0, _QW_LOCKED) == 0))
goto unlock;
- /*
- * Set the waiting flag to notify readers that a writer is pending,
- * or wait for a previous writer to go away.
- */
- for (;;) {
- if (!READ_ONCE(lock->wmode) &&
- (cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->wmode, 0, _QW_WAITING) == 0))
- break;
-
- cpu_relax();
- }
+ /* Set the waiting flag to notify readers that a writer is pending */
+ atomic_add(_QW_WAITING, &lock->cnts);
- /* When no more readers, set the locked flag */
+ /* When no more readers or writers, set the locked flag */
do {
atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->cnts, VAL == _QW_WAITING);
} while (atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->cnts, _QW_WAITING,