Re: [patch V3 50/64] locking/rtmutex: Extend the rtmutex core to support ww_mutex

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, Aug 06 2021 at 13:00, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:13:50PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>  static __always_inline bool __waiter_less(struct rb_node *a, const struct rb_node *b)
>>  {
>> -	return rt_mutex_waiter_less(__node_2_waiter(a), __node_2_waiter(b));
>
> Given ^
>
>> +	struct rt_mutex_waiter *aw = __node_2_waiter(a);
>> +	struct rt_mutex_waiter *bw = __node_2_waiter(b);
>> +
>> +	if (rt_mutex_waiter_less(aw, bw))
>> +		return 1;
>
> We can, with this new build_ww_mutex(), do:
>
> 	if (!build_ww_mutex())
> 		return 0;
>
> here, to preserve the old behaviour.
>
>> +	if (rt_mutex_waiter_less(bw, aw))
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	/* NOTE: relies on waiter->ww_ctx being set before insertion */
>> +	if (build_ww_mutex() && aw->ww_ctx) {
>
> Then it can go away here.

Pretty obvious. Indeed.