linux-kernel - Re: [patch] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane order

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Message-ID: <20070304232443.GP16722@waste.org>
Date:	Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:24:43 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane order

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:47:52PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>  /*
> + * Locks two spinlocks l1 and l2.
> + * l1_first indicates if spinlock l1 should be taken first.
> + */
> +static inline void double_spin_lock(spinlock_t *l1, spinlock_t *l2,
> +				    bool l1_first)
> +	__acquires(l1)
> +	__acquires(l2)
> +{
> +	if (l1_first) {
> +		spin_lock(l1);
> +		spin_lock(l2);
> +	} else {
> +		spin_lock(l2);
> +		spin_lock(l1);
> +	}
> +}

Two observations:

- We probably don't want people using this for locks that aren't
  explicitly in the same level of the hierarchy. The name should
  somehow indicate that. Something like spin_lock_siblings()?

- And once we know that, we can internally impose a natural stable
  ordering on them based on their addresses, eliminating the third
  argument and the need to duplicate the ordering calculation.

-- 
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