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author | Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> | 2016-05-18 03:26:22 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-08 15:17:00 +0200 |
commit | bf7b4c472db44413251bcef79ca1f6bf1ec81475 (patch) | |
tree | 0de51a7219f1aa5060ee230a655d2fb82b369a17 /kernel/locking | |
parent | locking/rwsem: Protect all writes to owner by WRITE_ONCE() (diff) | |
download | linux-bf7b4c472db44413251bcef79ca1f6bf1ec81475.tar.xz linux-bf7b4c472db44413251bcef79ca1f6bf1ec81475.zip |
locking/rwsem: Improve reader wakeup code
In __rwsem_do_wake(), the reader wakeup code will assume a writer
has stolen the lock if the active reader/writer count is not 0.
However, this is not as reliable an indicator as the original
"< RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS" check. If another reader is present, the code
will still break out and exit even if the writer is gone. This patch
changes it to check the same "< RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS" condition to
reduce the chance of false positive.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463534783-38814-5-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c index 6b0d0605910e..4f1daf5a472d 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c @@ -156,9 +156,14 @@ __rwsem_mark_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, oldcount = atomic_long_add_return(adjustment, &sem->count) - adjustment; if (unlikely(oldcount < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)) { - /* A writer stole the lock. Undo our reader grant. */ - if (atomic_long_sub_return(adjustment, &sem->count) & - RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK) + /* + * If the count is still less than RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS + * after removing the adjustment, it is assumed that + * a writer has stolen the lock. We have to undo our + * reader grant. + */ + if (atomic_long_add_return(-adjustment, &sem->count) < + RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) goto out; /* Last active locker left. Retry waking readers. */ goto try_reader_grant; |