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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 44 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c index 3417d0172a5d..0f189714e457 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c @@ -409,11 +409,24 @@ done: return taken; } +/* + * Return true if the rwsem has active spinner + */ +static inline bool rwsem_has_spinner(struct rw_semaphore *sem) +{ + return osq_is_locked(&sem->osq); +} + #else static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct rw_semaphore *sem) { return false; } + +static inline bool rwsem_has_spinner(struct rw_semaphore *sem) +{ + return false; +} #endif /* @@ -496,7 +509,38 @@ struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem) { unsigned long flags; + /* + * If a spinner is present, it is not necessary to do the wakeup. + * Try to do wakeup only if the trylock succeeds to minimize + * spinlock contention which may introduce too much delay in the + * unlock operation. + * + * spinning writer up_write/up_read caller + * --------------- ----------------------- + * [S] osq_unlock() [L] osq + * MB RMB + * [RmW] rwsem_try_write_lock() [RmW] spin_trylock(wait_lock) + * + * Here, it is important to make sure that there won't be a missed + * wakeup while the rwsem is free and the only spinning writer goes + * to sleep without taking the rwsem. Even when the spinning writer + * is just going to break out of the waiting loop, it will still do + * a trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed() before sleeping. IOW, if + * rwsem_has_spinner() is true, it will guarantee at least one + * trylock attempt on the rwsem later on. + */ + if (rwsem_has_spinner(sem)) { + /* + * The smp_rmb() here is to make sure that the spinner + * state is consulted before reading the wait_lock. + */ + smp_rmb(); + if (!raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags)) + return sem; + goto locked; + } raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags); +locked: /* do nothing if list empty */ if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) |