Re: [PATCH, RFC] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on32 bit architecture

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 05:56:59 EST


On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:28:10 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The following patch has been sitting in the ext4 patch queue for about
> > six weeks. It was there it was a suspected cause for block allocation
> > bug. As I recall, it we found the true root cause since then, but this
> > has stuck around since it's a potential problem. Andrew has expressed
> > concerns that this patch might have performance impacts.
>
> Performace impacts I guess we'll just have to put up with. iirc I was
> thinking that this implementation should be pushed down to a kernel-wide
> atomic64_t and then the percpu_counters would just use that type.

something like so?

or should I use a global seqlock hash table?

i386 could then do a version using cmpxchg8, although I'm not sure
that's a win, as I've heard thats an awefuly expensive op to use.

---
Subject:
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 07 11:52:37 CEST 2008

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/atomic_64.h | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 132 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/atomic_64.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/atomic_64.h
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_ATOMIC64_H
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_ATOMIC64_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
+
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>
+
+typedef struct {
+ s64 counter;
+ seqlock_t slock;
+} atomic64_t;
+
+ATOMIC64_INIT(i) { .counter = (i), .slock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(i.slock) }
+
+static inline s64 atomic64_read(atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ unsigned seq = read_seqbegin(&v->slock);
+ s64 val;
+
+ do {
+ val = v->counter;
+ } while (read_seqretry(&v->slock, seq));
+
+ return val;
+}
+
+static inline void atomic64_set(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter = i;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+}
+
+static inline void atomic64_add(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter += i;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+}
+
+static inline void atomic64_sub(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter -= i;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+}
+
+static inline int atomic64_sub_and_test(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter -= i;
+ ret = !v->counter;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline void atomic64_inc(atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter++;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+}
+
+static inline void atomic64_dec(atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter--;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+}
+
+static inline int atomic64_dec_and_test(atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter--;
+ ret = !v->counter;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int atomic64_add_and_test(atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter++;
+ ret = !v->counter;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int atomic64_add_negative(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter += i;
+ ret = v->counter < 0;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline s64 atomic64_add_return(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ s64 val;
+
+ write_seqlock(&v->slock);
+ v->counter += i;
+ val = v->counter;
+ write_sequnlock(&v->slock);
+
+ return val;
+}
+
+static inline s64 atomic64_sub_return(s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
+{
+ return atomic64_add_return(-i, v);
+}
+
+#define atomic64_inc_return(v) (atomic64_add_return(1, (v)))
+#define atomic64_dec_return(v) (atomic64_sub_return(1, (v)))
+
+#endif


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