[PATCH 3/5] locking/rtmutex: Relax to acquire/release semantics

[Davidlohr Bueso]

... by using acquire semantics where appropiate. As such, weakly
ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when
issuing atomics.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 7781d80..226a629 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -74,14 +74,23 @@ static void fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
  * set up.
  */
 #ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
-# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg(l,c,n)	(cmpxchg(&l->owner, c, n) == c)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_relaxed(l,c,n) (cmpxchg_relaxed(&l->owner, c, n) == c)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(l,c,n) (cmpxchg_acquire(&l->owner, c, n) == c)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(l,c,n) (cmpxchg_release(&l->owner, c, n) == c)
+
+/*
+ * Callers must hold the ->wait_lock -- which is the whole purpose as we force
+ * all future threads that attempt to [Rmw] the lock to the slowpath. As such
+ * relaxed semantics suffice.
+ */
 static inline void mark_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {
 	unsigned long owner, *p = (unsigned long *) &lock->owner;
 
 	do {
 		owner = *p;
-	} while (cmpxchg(p, owner, owner | RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS) != owner);
+	} while (cmpxchg_relaxed(p, owner,
+				 owner | RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS) != owner);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -121,11 +130,14 @@ static inline bool unlock_rt_mutex_safe(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 	 *					lock(wait_lock);
 	 *					acquire(lock);
 	 */
-	return rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, owner, NULL);
+	return rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, owner, NULL);
 }
 
 #else
-# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg(l,c,n)	(0)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_relaxed(l,c,n)	(0)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(l,c,n)	(0)
+# define rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(l,c,n)	(0)
+
 static inline void mark_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {
 	lock->owner = (struct task_struct *)
@@ -1321,7 +1333,7 @@ rt_mutex_fastlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
 				struct hrtimer_sleeper *timeout,
 				enum rtmutex_chainwalk chwalk))
 {
-	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, NULL, current))) {
+	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, NULL, current))) {
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, current);
 		return 0;
 	} else
@@ -1337,7 +1349,7 @@ rt_mutex_timed_fastlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
 				      enum rtmutex_chainwalk chwalk))
 {
 	if (chwalk == RT_MUTEX_MIN_CHAINWALK &&
-	    likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, NULL, current))) {
+	    likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, NULL, current))) {
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, current);
 		return 0;
 	} else
@@ -1348,7 +1360,7 @@ static inline int
 rt_mutex_fasttrylock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 		     int (*slowfn)(struct rt_mutex *lock))
 {
-	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, NULL, current))) {
+	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, NULL, current))) {
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, current);
 		return 1;
 	}
@@ -1362,7 +1374,7 @@ rt_mutex_fastunlock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 {
 	WAKE_Q(wake_q);
 
-	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, current, NULL))) {
+	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(lock, current, NULL))) {
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_unlock(current);
 
 	} else {
@@ -1484,7 +1496,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rt_mutex_unlock);
 bool __sched rt_mutex_futex_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 				   struct wake_q_head *wqh)
 {
-	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg(lock, current, NULL))) {
+	if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(lock, current, NULL))) {
 		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_unlock(current);
 		return false;
 	}
-- 
2.1.4

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