linux-kernel - [PATCH v4] locking/qrwlock: Fix write unlock issue in big endian

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:47:39 +0800
From:	Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, arnd@...db.de, Waiman.Long@....com,
	mingo@...hat.com, will.deacon@....com, boqun.feng@...il.com,
	pan xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] locking/qrwlock: Fix write unlock issue in big endian

From: pan xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

This patch aims to get rid of endianness in queued_write_unlock(). We
want to set  __qrwlock->wmode to NULL, however the address is not
&lock->cnts in big endian machine. That causes queued_write_unlock()
write NULL to the wrong field of __qrwlock.

So implement __qrwlock_write_byte() which returns the correct
__qrwlock->wmode address.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
change from v3:
	rewrite totally. :)
change from v2:
	change macro's name, add comments.
change from v1:
	A typo fix which is really bad...
	thanks Will for the carefull review.
---
 include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
index 54a8e65..7d026bf 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
@@ -25,7 +25,20 @@
 #include <asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h>
 
 /*
- * Writer states & reader shift and bias
+ * Writer states & reader shift and bias.
+ *
+ *       | +0 | +1 | +2 | +3 |
+ *   ----+----+----+----+----+
+ *    LE | 78 | 56 | 34 | 12 | 0x12345678
+ *   ----+----+----+----+----+
+ *       | wr |      rd      |
+ *       +----+----+----+----+
+ *
+ *   ----+----+----+----+----+
+ *    BE | 12 | 34 | 56 | 78 | 0x12345678
+ *   ----+----+----+----+----+
+ *       |      rd      | wr |
+ *       +----+----+----+----+
  */
 #define	_QW_WAITING	1		/* A writer is waiting	   */
 #define	_QW_LOCKED	0xff		/* A writer holds the lock */
@@ -134,12 +147,22 @@ static inline void queued_read_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
 }
 
 /**
+ * __qrwlock_write_byte - retrieve the write byte address of a queue rwlock
+ * @lock : Pointer to queue rwlock structure
+ * Return: the write byte address of a queue rwlock
+ */
+static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
+{
+	return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
+}
+
+/**
  * queued_write_unlock - release write lock of a queue rwlock
  * @lock : Pointer to queue rwlock structure
  */
 static inline void queued_write_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
 {
-	smp_store_release((u8 *)&lock->cnts, 0);
+	smp_store_release(__qrwlock_write_byte(lock), 0);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.9.1