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2017-01-30	locking/mutex: Fix lockdep_assert_held() fail	Peter Zijlstra	1	-4/+0
	In commit: 659cf9f5824a ("locking/ww_mutex: Optimize ww-mutexes by waking at most one waiter for backoff when acquiring the lock") I replaced a comment with a lockdep_assert_held(). However it turns out we hide that lock from lockdep for hysterical raisins, which results in the assertion always firing. Remove the old debug code as lockdep will easily spot the abuse it was meant to catch, which will make the lock visible to lockdep and make the assertion work as intended. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicolai Haehnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 659cf9f5824a ("locking/ww_mutex: Optimize ww-mutexes by waking at most one waiter for backoff when acquiring the lock") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117150609.GB32474@worktop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-25	locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner	Peter Zijlstra	1	-26/+0
	The current mutex implementation has an atomic lock word and a non-atomic owner field. This disparity leads to a number of issues with the current mutex code as it means that we can have a locked mutex without an explicit owner (because the owner field has not been set, or already cleared). This leads to a number of weird corner cases, esp. between the optimistic spinning and debug code. Where the optimistic spinning code needs the owner field updated inside the lock region, the debug code is more relaxed because the whole lock is serialized by the wait_lock. Also, the spinning code itself has a few corner cases where we need to deal with a held lock without an owner field. Furthermore, it becomes even more of a problem when trying to fix starvation cases in the current code. We end up stacking special case on special case. To solve this rework the basic mutex implementation to be a single atomic word that contains the owner and uses the low bits for extra state. This matches how PI futexes and rt_mutex already work. By having the owner an integral part of the lock state a lot of the problems dissapear and we get a better option to deal with starvation cases, direct owner handoff. Changing the basic mutex does however invalidate all the arch specific mutex code; this patch leaves that unused in-place, a later patch will remove that. Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-25	Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	Linus Torvalds	1	-2/+8
	Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a couple of major projects happened to coincide. The main changes are: - implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra) - add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives (Davidlohr Bueso) - optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso, Waiman Long) - optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}() on arm64 (Will Deacon) - introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra) - after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix usage sites (Peter Zijlstra) - optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra) - ... misc fixes and cleanups" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits) locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire() locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec() locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add() locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire() locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or() locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}() locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() ...
2016-06-23	locking: avoid passing around 'thread_info' in mutex debugging code	Linus Torvalds	1	-1/+1
	None of the code actually wants a thread_info, it all wants a task_struct, and it's just converting back and forth between the two ("ti->task" to get the task_struct from the thread_info, and "task_thread_info(task)" to go the other way). No semantic change. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-03	locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE()	Jason Low	1	-2/+8
	The mutex owner can get read and written to locklessly. Use WRITE_ONCE when setting and clearing the owner field in order to avoid optimizations such as store tearing. This avoids situations where the owner field gets written to with multiple stores and another thread could concurrently read and use a partially written owner value. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com> Cc: Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463782776.2479.9.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-08-13	locking/mutexes: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate	Davidlohr Bueso	1	-1/+1
	4badad35 ("locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures") added a ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW flag to disable the mutex optimistic feature on specific archs. Because CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER only depended on DEBUG and SMP, it was ok to have the ->owner field conditional a bit flexible. However by adding a new variable to the matter, we can waste space with the unused field, ie: CONFIG_SMP && (!CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER && !CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-5-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06	locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/	Peter Zijlstra	1	-0/+48
	Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1ditvncg30dgbpvrz2bxfmke@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>