[patch V4 02/10] rtmutex: Simplify rtmutex_slowtrylock()

[Thomas Gleixner]

Oleg noticed that rtmutex_slowtrylock() has a pointless check for
rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current.

To avoid calling try_to_take_rtmutex() we really want to check whether
the lock has an owner at all or whether the trylock failed because the
owner is NULL, but the RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS bit is set. This covers
the lock is owned by caller situation as well.

We can actually do this check lockless. trylock is taking a chance
whether we take lock->wait_lock to do the check or not.

Add comments to the function while at it.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: tip/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ tip/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -963,22 +963,32 @@ rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 /*
  * Slow path try-lock function:
  */
-static inline int
-rt_mutex_slowtrylock(struct rt_mutex *lock)
+static inline int rt_mutex_slowtrylock(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * trylock is taking a chance. So we dont have to take
+	 * @lock->wait_lock to figure out whether @lock has a real or
+	 * if @lock owner is NULL and the RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS bit is
+	 * set.
+	 */
+	if (rt_mutex_owner(lock))
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * The mutex has currently no owner. Lock the wait lock and
+	 * try to acquire the lock.
+	 */
 	raw_spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
-	if (likely(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)) {
+	ret = try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, NULL);
 
-		ret = try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, NULL);
-		/*
-		 * try_to_take_rt_mutex() sets the lock waiters
-		 * bit unconditionally. Clean this up.
-		 */
-		fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * try_to_take_rt_mutex() sets the lock waiters bit
+	 * unconditionally. Clean this up.
+	 */
+	fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
 
 	raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 


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