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authorJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>2015-04-08 12:39:19 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-04-09 08:10:23 +0200
commit01ac33c1f907b366dcc50551316b372f1519cca9 (patch)
tree3acec01dacf54ca648dda938b21fe5a0626f9e5b /kernel
parent7bd3e239d6c6d1cad276e8f130b386df4234dcd7 (diff)
downloadlinux-01ac33c1f907b366dcc50551316b372f1519cca9.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/mutex.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 16b2d3cc88b0..4cccea6b8934 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();