[tip:locking/core] locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()

tip-bot for Jason Low
2015-04-09T09:02:06Z

Commit-ID: 01ac33c1f907b366dcc50551316b372f1519cca9
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/01ac33c1f907b366dcc50551316b372f1519cca9
Author: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:39:19 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:10:23 +0200

locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()

Similar to what Linus suggested for rwsem_spin_on_owner(), in
mutex_spin_on_owner() instead of having while (true) and
breaking out of the spin loop on lock->owner != owner, we can
have the loop directly check for while (lock->owner == owner) to
improve the readability of the code.

It also shrinks the code a bit:

text data bss dec hex filename
3721 0 0 3721 e89 mutex.o.before
3705 0 0 3705 e79 mutex.o.after

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428521960-5268-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
[ Added code generation info. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/locking/mutex.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 16b2d3c..4cccea6 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -224,20 +224,14 @@ ww_mutex_set_context_slowpath(struct ww_mutex *lock,
static noinline
bool mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
{
- bool ret;
+ bool ret = true;

rcu_read_lock();
- while (true) {
- /* Return success when the lock owner changed */
- if (lock->owner != owner) {
- ret = true;
- break;
- }
-
+ while (lock->owner == owner) {
/*
* Ensure we emit the owner->on_cpu, dereference _after_
- * checking lock->owner still matches owner, if that fails,
- * owner might point to free()d memory, if it still matches,
+ * checking lock->owner still matches owner. If that fails,
+ * owner might point to freed memory. If it still matches,
* the rcu_read_lock() ensures the memory stays valid.
*/
barrier();