Re: [PATCH 1/6] mlock: only hold mmap_sem in shared mode when faulting in pages

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 22:39 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> I think rwsem_is_contended() actually sounds better than fiddling with
> constants, but OTOH maybe the mlock use case is not significant enough
> to justify introducing that new API. 

Right, so I don't see the problem with _is_contended() either. In fact,
I introduce mutex_is_contended() in the mmu_preempt series to convert
existing (spin) lock break tests.

If you want to do lock-breaks like cond_resched_lock() all you really
have is *_is_contended(), sleeping locks will schedule unconditional.

int cond_break_mutex(struct mutex *mutex)
{
	int ret = 0;
	if (mutex_is_contended(mutex)) {
		mutex_unlock(mutex);
		ret = 1;
		mutex_lock(mutex);
	}
	return 1;
}

Or more exotic lock breaks, like the mmu-gather stuff, which falls out
of its nested page-table loops and restarts the whole affair.