Re: [PATCH 2/2] locking: Apply contention tracepoints in the slow path

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Fri Mar 18 2022 - 08:56:10 EST


On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 03:45:48PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
[...]
> @@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ static inline int __sched __down_common(struct semaphore *sem, long state,
> long timeout)
> {
> struct semaphore_waiter waiter;
> + bool tracing = false;
>
> list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
> waiter.task = current;
> @@ -220,18 +222,28 @@ static inline int __sched __down_common(struct semaphore *sem, long state,
> if (unlikely(timeout <= 0))
> goto timed_out;
> __set_current_state(state);
> + if (!tracing) {
> + trace_contention_begin(sem, 0);

This looks a littl ugly ;-/ Maybe we can rename __down_common() to
___down_common() and implement __down_common() as:

static inline int __sched __down_common(...)
{
int ret;
trace_contention_begin(sem, 0);
ret = ___down_common(...);
trace_contention_end(sem, ret);
return ret;
}

Thoughts?

Regards,
Boqun

> + tracing = true;
> + }
> raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->lock);
> timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
> raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->lock);
> - if (waiter.up)
> + if (waiter.up) {
> + trace_contention_end(sem, 0);
> return 0;
> + }
> }
>
> timed_out:
> + if (tracing)
> + trace_contention_end(sem, -ETIME);
> list_del(&waiter.list);
> return -ETIME;
>
> interrupted:
> + if (tracing)
> + trace_contention_end(sem, -EINTR);
> list_del(&waiter.list);
> return -EINTR;
> }
> --
> 2.35.1.894.gb6a874cedc-goog
>