Re: [PATCH 02/10] locking/qspinlock: Remove unbounded cmpxchg loop from locking slowpath

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 13:13:22 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:58:59PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> @@ -306,58 +306,48 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
> return;
>
> /*
> + * If we observe any contention; queue.
> + */
> + if (val & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK)
> + goto queue;
> +
> + /*
> * trylock || pending
> *
> * 0,0,0 -> 0,0,1 ; trylock
> * 0,0,1 -> 0,1,1 ; pending
> */
> + val = atomic_fetch_or_acquire(_Q_PENDING_VAL, &lock->val);
> + if (!(val & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK)) {
> /*
> + * we're pending, wait for the owner to go away.
> + *
> + * *,1,1 -> *,1,0
> + *
> + * this wait loop must be a load-acquire such that we match the
> + * store-release that clears the locked bit and create lock
> + * sequentiality; this is because not all
> + * clear_pending_set_locked() implementations imply full
> + * barriers.
> */
> + if (val & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)
> + smp_cond_load_acquire(&lock->val.counter,
> + !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_MASK));

I much prefer { } for multi-line statements like this.

> /*
> + * take ownership and clear the pending bit.
> + *
> + * *,1,0 -> *,0,1
> */
> + clear_pending_set_locked(lock);
> return;
> + }