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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2019-05-20 16:59:07 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-06-17 12:28:00 +0200
commit00f3c5a3df2c1e3dab14d0dd2b71f852d46be97f (patch)
treee2a43358ed69c8cab7b5801552797cdd61d69b44 /kernel/locking
parentlocking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation (diff)
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locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
With the use of wake_q, we can do task wakeups without holding the wait_lock. There is one exception in the rwsem code, though. It is when the writer in the slowpath detects that there are waiters ahead but the rwsem is not held by a writer. This can lead to a long wait_lock hold time especially when a large number of readers are to be woken up. Remediate this situation by releasing the wait_lock before waking up tasks and re-acquiring it afterward. The rwsem_try_write_lock() function is also modified to read the rwsem count directly to avoid stale count value. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-9-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/rwsem.c31
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index decda9fb8c6d..5532304406f7 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -400,13 +400,14 @@ static void rwsem_mark_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
* If wstate is WRITER_HANDOFF, it will make sure that either the handoff
* bit is set or the lock is acquired with handoff bit cleared.
*/
-static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(long count, struct rw_semaphore *sem,
+static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
enum writer_wait_state wstate)
{
- long new;
+ long count, new;
lockdep_assert_held(&sem->wait_lock);
+ count = atomic_long_read(&sem->count);
do {
bool has_handoff = !!(count & RWSEM_FLAG_HANDOFF);
@@ -751,26 +752,25 @@ rwsem_down_write_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
? RWSEM_WAKE_READERS
: RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, &wake_q);
- /*
- * The wakeup is normally called _after_ the wait_lock
- * is released, but given that we are proactively waking
- * readers we can deal with the wake_q overhead as it is
- * similar to releasing and taking the wait_lock again
- * for attempting rwsem_try_write_lock().
- */
- wake_up_q(&wake_q);
-
- /* We need wake_q again below, reinitialize */
- wake_q_init(&wake_q);
+ if (!wake_q_empty(&wake_q)) {
+ /*
+ * We want to minimize wait_lock hold time especially
+ * when a large number of readers are to be woken up.
+ */
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+ wake_up_q(&wake_q);
+ wake_q_init(&wake_q); /* Used again, reinit */
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
+ }
} else {
- count = atomic_long_add_return(RWSEM_FLAG_WAITERS, &sem->count);
+ atomic_long_or(RWSEM_FLAG_WAITERS, &sem->count);
}
wait:
/* wait until we successfully acquire the lock */
set_current_state(state);
while (true) {
- if (rwsem_try_write_lock(count, sem, wstate))
+ if (rwsem_try_write_lock(sem, wstate))
break;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
@@ -811,7 +811,6 @@ wait:
}
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
- count = atomic_long_read(&sem->count);
}
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
list_del(&waiter.list);