R/W semaphore changes

[David Howells]

I see you've made some R/W semaphore changes...

| /*
|  * nested locking:
|  */

This comment is inadequate.  Please be more explicit about when you're allowed
to do this.

| extern void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
| extern void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);

Please, please, please don't.  R/W semaphores are _not_ permitted to nest.
That way lies deadlock.

| /*
|  * Take/release a lock when not the owner will release it:
|  */
| extern void down_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
| extern void up_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

Does that mean that the owner may not then release the semaphore?  I presume
not, but it's not entirely clear.

| # define down_read_nested(sem, subclass)		down_read(sem)
| # define down_write_nested(sem, subclass)	down_write(sem)

This is _not_ okay.


I also notice that you've out-of-lined the rwsems debugging wrappers in all
situations.  Please don't.  On some archs this is going to slow things down.
On FRV for example, this is converted to:

	0xc00437f0 <down_read+0>:	addi sp,-16,sp
	0xc00437f4 <down_read+4>:	sti fp,@(sp,0)
	0xc00437f8 <down_read+8>:	ori sp,0,fp
	0xc00437fc <down_read+12>:	movsg lr,gr5
	0xc0043800 <down_read+16>:	sti gr5,@(fp,8)
	0xc0043804 <down_read+20>:	call 0xc01ea910 <__down_read>
	0xc0043808 <down_read+24>:	ldi @(fp,8),gr5
	0xc004380c <down_read+28>:	ld @(fp,gr0),fp
	0xc0043810 <down_read+32>:	addi sp,16,sp
	0xc0043814 <down_read+36>:	jmpl @(gr5,gr0)

When previously __down_read would be called directly...  This applies to every
arch that uses the spinlock-based R/W sems.  In FRV's case, you've required
the loading of extra icache lines to no useful purpose.  Now I do have GDB
stub compiled in, so normally it would be shorter than this as it wouldn't
normally save the frame pointer, and would probably tail-call.

If you must put your annotations somewhere, please place them in lib/rwsem*.c
directly.

Please _only_ out-of-line the rwsem debugging wrappers when the appropriate
config options are set.  It is reasonable to do it then - it is debugging code
after all, and therefore not enabled for normal operation.

Oh, and if you're going to out-of-line the rwsem debugging wrappers like this,
please remove all the then-redundant PUSHL instructions from the inline asm in
include/asm-i386/rwsem.h.  They're then no longer required as there's no need
to save registers that are callee-clobbered, since you're marking them
clobbered anyway by interpolating an extra function call.
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