From d133166146333e1f13fc81c0e6c43c8d99290a8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:20:51 +0100 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Jeremy Linton Tested-by: Adam Wallis Tested-by: Jan Glauber Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 --- include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h') diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h index 507f2dc51bba..8af752acbdc0 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ typedef struct qrwlock { atomic_t cnts; struct { #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN - u8 wmode; /* Writer mode */ - u8 rcnts[3]; /* Reader counts */ + u8 wlocked; /* Locked for write? */ + u8 __lstate[3]; #else - u8 rcnts[3]; /* Reader counts */ - u8 wmode; /* Writer mode */ + u8 __lstate[3]; + u8 wlocked; /* Locked for write? */ #endif }; }; -- cgit v1.2.3