Re: [PATCH 11/13] locking/qspinlock: Use queued_spin_trylock in pv_hybrid_queued_unfair_trylock

[Waiman Long]

On 7/4/22 10:38, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Rather than open-code it as necessitated by the old function-renaming
> code generation that rendered queued_spin_trylock unavailable to use
> here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> index cef0ca7d94e1..9db168753124 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static inline bool pv_hybrid_queued_unfair_trylock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>   		int val = atomic_read(&lock->val);
>   
>   		if (!(val & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK) &&
> -		   (cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0)) {
> +				queued_spin_trylock(lock)) {
>   			lockevent_inc(pv_lock_stealing);
>   			return true;
>   		}

I am not sure if the compiler will eliminate the duplicated 
atomic_read() in queued_spin_trylock(). So unless it can generate the 
same code, I would prefer to leave this alone.

Cheers,
Longman