From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/pvclock: improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:23:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230118202330.3740-1-ubizjak@gmail.com> (raw)
Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read:
- Atomic update can be skipped if the "last_value" is already
equal to "ret".
- The detection of atomic update failure is not correct. The value,
returned by atomic64_cmpxchg should be compared to the old value
from the location to be updated. If these two are the same, then
atomic update succeeded and "last_value" location is updated to
"ret" in an atomic way. Otherwise, the atomic update failed and
it should be retried with the value from "last_value" - exactly
what atomic64_try_cmpxchg does in a correct and more optimal way.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
index eda37df016f0..5a2a517dd61b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
@@ -102,10 +102,9 @@ u64 pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src)
*/
last = atomic64_read(&last_value);
do {
- if (ret < last)
+ if (ret <= last)
return last;
- last = atomic64_cmpxchg(&last_value, last, ret);
- } while (unlikely(last != ret));
+ } while (!atomic64_try_cmpxchg(&last_value, &last, ret));
return ret;
}
--
2.39.0
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2023-01-18 20:23 Uros Bizjak [this message]
2023-01-31 14:22 ` [tip: sched/core] x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read() tip-bot2 for Uros Bizjak
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