Re: [PATCH v4 13/13] riscv: Add qspinlock support

[Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>]

> > +	select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE if ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
> 
> Why do we need this? Also, we presumably would prefer not to have it
> when we end up using ticket spinlocks when combo spinlocks is selected.
> Is there no way to avoid it?

Probably not what you had in mind but we should be able to drop the full
barriers in the ticket-lock implementation, deferring/confining them to
RCU code; this way no separate treatment would be needed for either lock:

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index c9ff8081efc1a..d37afe3bb20cb 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP
 	select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
 	select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-	select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE if ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
+	select ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
 	select BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET if !MMU
 	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT if MMU
 	select CLINT_TIMER if RISCV_M_MODE
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/ticket_spinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/ticket_spinlock.h
index 325779970d8a0..47522640e5e39 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/ticket_spinlock.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/ticket_spinlock.h
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@
  * about this. If your architecture cannot do this you might be better off with
  * a test-and-set.
  *
- * It further assumes atomic_*_release() + atomic_*_acquire() is RCpc and hence
- * uses atomic_fetch_add() which is RCsc to create an RCsc hot path, along with
- * a full fence after the spin to upgrade the otherwise-RCpc
- * atomic_cond_read_acquire().
+ * It further assumes atomic_*_release() + atomic_*_acquire() is RCtso, where
+ * regular code only expects atomic_t to be RCpc.
  *
  * The implementation uses smp_cond_load_acquire() to spin, so if the
  * architecture has WFE like instructions to sleep instead of poll for word
@@ -32,22 +30,13 @@
 
 static __always_inline void ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-	u32 val = atomic_fetch_add(1<<16, &lock->val);
+	u32 val = atomic_fetch_add_acquire(1<<16, &lock->val);
 	u16 ticket = val >> 16;
 
 	if (ticket == (u16)val)
 		return;
 
-	/*
-	 * atomic_cond_read_acquire() is RCpc, but rather than defining a
-	 * custom cond_read_rcsc() here we just emit a full fence.  We only
-	 * need the prior reads before subsequent writes ordering from
-	 * smb_mb(), but as atomic_cond_read_acquire() just emits reads and we
-	 * have no outstanding writes due to the atomic_fetch_add() the extra
-	 * orderings are free.
-	 */
 	atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->val, ticket == (u16)VAL);
-	smp_mb();
 }
 
 static __always_inline bool ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
@@ -57,7 +46,7 @@ static __always_inline bool ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 	if ((old >> 16) != (old & 0xffff))
 		return false;
 
-	return atomic_try_cmpxchg(&lock->val, &old, old + (1<<16)); /* SC, for RCsc */
+	return atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, &old, old + (1<<16));
 }
 
 static __always_inline void ticket_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZlnyKclZOQdrJTtU@andrea/ provides additional
context.

But enough presumably,  ;-)  How do the above changes look in your tests?
other suggestions?

  Andrea