Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] locking/qrwlock: implement queue_write_unlock using smp_store_release

[Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>]

On 08/03/2015 01:02 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Since 536fa402221f ("compiler: Allow 1- and 2-byte smp_load_acquire()
> and smp_store_release()"), smp_store_release supports byte accesses, so
> use that in writer unlock and remove the conditional macro override.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon<will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/qrwlock.h | 10 ----------
>   include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h  |  9 +--------
>   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/qrwlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/qrwlock.h
> index a8810bf135ab..c537cbb038a7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qrwlock.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qrwlock.h
> @@ -2,16 +2,6 @@
>   #define _ASM_X86_QRWLOCK_H
>
>   #include<asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h>
> -
> -#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE
> -#define queued_write_unlock queued_write_unlock
> -static inline void queued_write_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
> -{
> -        barrier();
> -        ACCESS_ONCE(*(u8 *)&lock->cnts) = 0;
> -}
> -#endif
> -
>   #include<asm-generic/qrwlock.h>
>
>   #endif /* _ASM_X86_QRWLOCK_H */
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> index deb9e8b0eb9e..eb673dde8879 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> @@ -134,21 +134,14 @@ static inline void queued_read_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
>   	atomic_sub(_QR_BIAS,&lock->cnts);
>   }
>
> -#ifndef queued_write_unlock
>   /**
>    * queued_write_unlock - release write lock of a queue rwlock
>    * @lock : Pointer to queue rwlock structure
>    */
>   static inline void queued_write_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
>   {
> -	/*
> -	 * If the writer field is atomic, it can be cleared directly.
> -	 * Otherwise, an atomic subtraction will be used to clear it.
> -	 */
> -	smp_mb__before_atomic();
> -	atomic_sub(_QW_LOCKED,&lock->cnts);
> +	smp_store_release((u8 *)&lock->cnts, 0);
>   }
> -#endif
>
>   /*
>    * Remapping rwlock architecture specific functions to the corresponding

Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>