[PATCH-tip] locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some archs

From: Waiman Long
Date: Tue Dec 06 2016 - 14:15:01 EST


A number of cmpxchg calls in qspinlock_paravirt.h were replaced by more
relaxed versions to improve performance on architectures that use LL/SC.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index e3b5520..9d2205f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline bool pv_queued_spin_steal_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;

if (!(atomic_read(&lock->val) & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK) &&
- (cmpxchg(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0)) {
+ (cmpxchg_acquire(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0)) {
qstat_inc(qstat_pv_lock_stealing, true);
return true;
}
@@ -101,16 +101,16 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)

/*
* The pending bit check in pv_queued_spin_steal_lock() isn't a memory
- * barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg() is used to acquire the lock
- * just to be sure that it will get it.
+ * barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg_acquire() is used to acquire the
+ * lock to provide the proper memory barrier.
*/
static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;

return !READ_ONCE(l->locked) &&
- (cmpxchg(&l->locked_pending, _Q_PENDING_VAL, _Q_LOCKED_VAL)
- == _Q_PENDING_VAL);
+ (cmpxchg_acquire(&l->locked_pending, _Q_PENDING_VAL,
+ _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == _Q_PENDING_VAL);
}
#else /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */
static __always_inline void set_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
*/
old = val;
new = (val & ~_Q_PENDING_MASK) | _Q_LOCKED_VAL;
- val = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, old, new);
+ val = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, old, new);

if (val == old)
return 1;
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static struct qspinlock **pv_hash(struct qspinlock *lock, struct pv_node *node)

for_each_hash_entry(he, offset, hash) {
hopcnt++;
- if (!cmpxchg(&he->lock, NULL, lock)) {
+ if (!cmpxchg_relaxed(&he->lock, NULL, lock)) {
WRITE_ONCE(he->node, node);
qstat_hop(hopcnt);
return &he->lock;
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node, struct mcs_spinlock *prev)
* MB MB
* [L] pn->locked [RmW] pn->state = vcpu_hashed
*
- * Matches the cmpxchg() from pv_kick_node().
+ * Matches the cmpxchg_release() from pv_kick_node().
*/
smp_store_mb(pn->state, vcpu_halted);

@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node, struct mcs_spinlock *prev)
* value so that pv_wait_head_or_lock() knows to not also try
* to hash this lock.
*/
- cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_running);
+ cmpxchg_relaxed(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_running);

/*
* If the locked flag is still not set after wakeup, it is a
@@ -360,9 +360,10 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
* pv_wait_node(). If OTOH this fails, the vCPU was running and will
* observe its next->locked value and advance itself.
*
- * Matches with smp_store_mb() and cmpxchg() in pv_wait_node()
+ * Matches with smp_store_mb() and cmpxchg_relaxed() in pv_wait_node().
*/
- if (cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed) != vcpu_halted)
+ if (cmpxchg_release(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed)
+ != vcpu_halted)
return;

/*
@@ -461,8 +462,8 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
}

/*
- * The cmpxchg() or xchg() call before coming here provides the
- * acquire semantics for locking. The dummy ORing of _Q_LOCKED_VAL
+ * The cmpxchg_acquire() or xchg() call before coming here provides
+ * the acquire semantics for locking. The dummy ORing of _Q_LOCKED_VAL
* here is to indicate to the compiler that the value will always
* be nozero to enable better code optimization.
*/
@@ -488,11 +489,12 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
}

/*
- * A failed cmpxchg doesn't provide any memory-ordering guarantees,
- * so we need a barrier to order the read of the node data in
- * pv_unhash *after* we've read the lock being _Q_SLOW_VAL.
+ * A failed cmpxchg_release doesn't provide any memory-ordering
+ * guarantees, so we need a barrier to order the read of the node
+ * data in pv_unhash *after* we've read the lock being _Q_SLOW_VAL.
*
- * Matches the cmpxchg() in pv_wait_head_or_lock() setting _Q_SLOW_VAL.
+ * Matches the cmpxchg_acquire() in pv_wait_head_or_lock() setting
+ * _Q_SLOW_VAL.
*/
smp_rmb();

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