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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] task_work: use READ_ONCE/lockless_dereference, avoid pi_lock if !task_works
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:00:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160610150042.GA13868@redhat.com> (raw)

Change task_work_cancel() to use lockless_dereference(), this is what the
code really wants but we didn't have this helper when it was written.

Also add the fast-path task->task_works == NULL check, in the likely case
this task has no pending works and we can avoid spin_lock(task->pi_lock).

While at it, change other users of ACCESS_ONCE() to use READ_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/task_work.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
index 53fa971..175f67a 100644
--- a/kernel/task_work.c
+++ b/kernel/task_work.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work, bool notify)
 	struct callback_head *head;
 
 	do {
-		head = ACCESS_ONCE(task->task_works);
+		head = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
 		if (unlikely(head == &work_exited))
 			return -ESRCH;
 		work->next = head;
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func)
 	struct callback_head **pprev = &task->task_works;
 	struct callback_head *work;
 	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (likely(!task->task_works))
+		return NULL;
 	/*
 	 * If cmpxchg() fails we continue without updating pprev.
 	 * Either we raced with task_work_add() which added the
@@ -64,8 +67,7 @@ task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func)
 	 * we raced with task_work_run(), *pprev == NULL/exited.
 	 */
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
-	while ((work = ACCESS_ONCE(*pprev))) {
-		smp_read_barrier_depends();
+	while ((work = lockless_dereference(*pprev))) {
 		if (work->func != func)
 			pprev = &work->next;
 		else if (cmpxchg(pprev, work, work->next) == work)
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ void task_work_run(void)
 		 * work_exited unless the list is empty.
 		 */
 		do {
-			work = ACCESS_ONCE(task->task_works);
+			work = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
 			head = !work && (task->flags & PF_EXITING) ?
 				&work_exited : NULL;
 		} while (cmpxchg(&task->task_works, work, head) != work);
-- 
2.5.0

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