[PATCH v9 4/6] MCS Lock: Allow architectures to hook in tocontended paths

From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 18:36:36 EST


From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx

When contended, architectures may be able to reduce the polling overhead
in ways which aren't expressible using a simple relax() primitive.

This patch allows architectures to hook into the mcs_{lock,unlock}
functions for the contended cases only.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
index 143fa42..e9a4d74 100644
--- a/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
@@ -17,6 +17,28 @@ struct mcs_spinlock {
int locked; /* 1 if lock acquired */
};

+#ifndef arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended
+/*
+ * Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that ensures
+ * subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired.
+ */
+#define arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l) \
+do { \
+ while (!(smp_load_acquire(l))) \
+ arch_mutex_cpu_relax(); \
+} while (0)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended
+/*
+ * smp_store_release() provides a memory barrier to ensure all
+ * operations in the critical section has been completed before
+ * unlocking.
+ */
+#define arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(l) \
+ smp_store_release((l), 1)
+#endif
+
/*
* Note: the smp_load_acquire/smp_store_release pair is not
* sufficient to form a full memory barrier across
@@ -58,13 +80,9 @@ void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
return;
}
ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node;
- /*
- * Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down.
- * Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that
- * ensures subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired.
- */
- while (!(smp_load_acquire(&node->locked)))
- arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
+
+ /* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down. */
+ arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(&node->locked);
}

/*
@@ -86,13 +104,9 @@ void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
}
- /*
- * Pass lock to next waiter.
- * smp_store_release() provides a memory barrier to ensure
- * all operations in the critical section has been completed
- * before unlocking.
- */
- smp_store_release(&next->locked, 1);
+
+ /* Pass lock to next waiter. */
+ arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(&next->locked);
}

#endif /* __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H */
--
1.7.11.7



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