[PATCH 3/6] locking/rwsem: Set lock ownership ASAP

Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-26T07:36:51Z

In order to optimize the spinning step, we need to set the lock
owner as soon as the lock is acquired; after a successful counter
cmpxchg operation, that is. This is particularly useful as rwsems
need to set the owner to nil for readers, so there is a greater
chance of falling out of the spinning. Currently we only set the
owner much later in the game, in the more generic level -- latency
can be specially bad when waiting for a node->next pointer when
releasing the osq in up_write calls.

As such, update the owner inside rwsem_try_write_lock (when the
lock is obtained after blocking) and rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued
(when the lock is obtained while spinning). This requires creating
a new internal rwsem.h header to share the owner related calls.

Also cleanup some headers for mutex and rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
---
kernel/locking/mutex.c | 2 +-
kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 8 ++++++--
kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 22 +---------------------
kernel/locking/rwsem.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 kernel/locking/rwsem.h

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index c67a60b..166355e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
-#include "mcs_spinlock.h"
+#include <linux/osq_lock.h>

/*
* In the DEBUG case we are using the "NULL fastpath" for mutexes,
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
index 149e8c7..5e425d8 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/sched/rt.h>
+#include <linux/osq_lock.h>

-#include "mcs_spinlock.h"
+#include "rwsem.h"

/*
* Guide to the rw_semaphore's count field for common values.
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(long count, struct rw_semaphore *sem)
RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS) == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
rwsem_atomic_update(RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, sem);
+ rwsem_set_owner(sem);
return true;
}

@@ -282,8 +284,10 @@ static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
return false;

old = cmpxchg(&sem->count, count, count + RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS);
- if (old == count)
+ if (old == count) {
+ rwsem_set_owner(sem);
return true;
+ }

count = old;
}
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index e2d3bc7..205be0c 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -9,29 +9,9 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
-
#include <linux/atomic.h>

-#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
-static inline void rwsem_set_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
-{
- sem->owner = current;
-}
-
-static inline void rwsem_clear_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
-{
- sem->owner = NULL;
-}
-
-#else
-static inline void rwsem_set_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void rwsem_clear_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
-{
-}
-#endif
+#include "rwsem.h"

/*
* lock for reading
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.h b/kernel/locking/rwsem.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..870ed9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
+static inline void rwsem_set_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+ sem->owner = current;
+}
+
+static inline void rwsem_clear_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+ sem->owner = NULL;
+}
+
+#else
+static inline void rwsem_set_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void rwsem_clear_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+}
+#endif
--
2.1.2