Re: [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Move waiting on contended ticketlock out of line

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 01:42 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 06:09 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > So I almost think that *everything* there in the semaphore code could
> > be done under RCU. The actual spinlock doesn't seem to much matter, at
> > least for semaphores. The semaphore values themselves seem to be
> > protected by the atomic operations, but I might be wrong about that, I
> > didn't even check.
> 
> Checking try_atomic_semop and do_smart_update, it looks like neither
> is using atomic operations. That part of the semaphore code would
> still benefit from spinlocks.

Agreed.

> 
> The way the code handles a whole batch of semops all at once,
> potentially to multiple semaphores at once, and with the ability
> to undo all of the operations, it looks like the spinlock will
> still need to be per block of semaphores.
> 
> I guess the code may still benefit from Michel's locking code,
> after the permission stuff has been moved from under the spinlock.

How about splitting ipc_lock()/ipc_lock_control() in two calls: one to
obtain the ipc object (rcu_read_lock + idr_find), which can be called
when performing the permissions and security checks, and another to
obtain the ipcp->lock [q_]spinlock when necessary.


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