linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/10] rwsem: wake queued readers when writer blocks on active read lock

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Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 05:39:37 -0700
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] rwsem: wake queued readers when writer blocks on active read lock

This change addresses the following situation:

- Thread A acquires the rwsem for read
- Thread B tries to acquire the rwsem for write, notices there is already
  an active owner for the rwsem.
- Thread C tries to acquire the rwsem for read, notices that thread B already
  tried to acquire it.
- Thread C grabs the spinlock and queues itself on the wait queue.
- Thread B grabs the spinlock and queues itself behind C. At this point A is
  the only remaining active owner on the rwsem.

In this situation thread B could notice that it was the last active writer
on the rwsem, and decide to wake C to let it proceed in parallel with A
since they both only want the rwsem for read.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
---
 lib/rwsem.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rwsem.c b/lib/rwsem.c
index 92a133f..6e1200e 100644
--- a/lib/rwsem.c
+++ b/lib/rwsem.c
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
 		goto readers_only;
 
 	if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED)
+		/* Another active reader was observed, so wakeup is not
+		 * likely to succeed. Save the atomic op.
+		 */
 		goto out;
 
 	/* There's a writer at the front of the queue - try to grant it the
@@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
  readers_only:
 	/* If we come here from up_xxxx(), another thread might have reached
 	 * rwsem_down_failed_common() before we acquired the spinlock and
-	 * woken up an active locker.  We prefer to check for this first in
+	 * woken up an active writer.  We prefer to check for this first in
 	 * order to not spend too much time with the spinlock held if we're
 	 * not going to be able to wake up readers in the end.
 	 *
@@ -111,8 +114,8 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
 	 * count adjustment pretty soon.
 	 */
 	if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_ANY &&
-	    rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)
-		/* Someone grabbed the sem already */
+	    rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
+		/* Someone grabbed the sem for write already */
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Grant an infinite number of read locks to the readers at the front
@@ -186,9 +189,17 @@ rwsem_down_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
 	/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
 	count = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem);
 
-	/* if there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up */
-	if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK))
+	/* If there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up.
+	 *
+	 * Alternatively, if we're called from a failed down_write(), there
+	 * were already threads queued before us, and there are no active
+	 * writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to wake any read
+	 * locks that were queued ahead of us. */
+	if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
 		sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_NO_ACTIVE);
+	else if (count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
+		 adjustment == -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
+		sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED);
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
 
-- 
1.7.0.1

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