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Date:	Thu, 30 May 2013 16:08:54 +0200
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>
To:	Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, x86@...nel.org,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>,
	robclark@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu,
	"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mutex: add support for wound/wait style locks,
 v5

Op 29-05-13 12:33, Inki Dae schreef:
> Hi,
>
> Just minor comments
>
> +Usage
>> +-----
>> +
>> +Three different ways to acquire locks within the same w/w class. Common
>> +definitions for methods #1 and #2:
>> +
>> +static DEFINE_WW_CLASS(ww_class);
>> +
>> +struct obj {
>> +       struct ww_mutex lock;
>> +       /* obj data */
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct obj_entry {
>> +       struct list_head *list;
>> +       struct obj *obj;
>> +};
>> +
>> +Method 1, using a list in execbuf->buffers that's not allowed to be
>> reordered.
>> +This is useful if a list of required objects is already tracked somewhere.
>> +Furthermore the lock helper can use propagate the -EALREADY return code
>> back to
>> +the caller as a signal that an object is twice on the list. This is
>> useful if
>> +the list is constructed from userspace input and the ABI requires
>> userspace to
>> +not have duplicate entries (e.g. for a gpu commandbuffer submission
>> ioctl).
>> +
>> +int lock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
>> +{
>> +       struct obj *res_obj = NULL;
>> +       struct obj_entry *contended_entry = NULL;
>> +       struct obj_entry *entry;
>> +
>> +       ww_acquire_init(ctx, &ww_class);
>> +
>> +retry:
>> +       list_for_each_entry (list, entry) {
>> +               if (entry == res_obj) {
>>
Indeed, documentation was wrong. With the below diff it should almost compile now.
I really don't want to know if it really does, it's meant to be documentation!

diff --git a/Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt
index 8bd1761..379739c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ struct obj {
 };
 
 struct obj_entry {
-	struct list_head *list;
+	struct list_head head;
 	struct obj *obj;
 };
 
@@ -120,14 +120,14 @@ int lock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 	ww_acquire_init(ctx, &ww_class);
 
 retry:
-	list_for_each_entry (list, entry) {
-		if (entry == res_obj) {
+	list_for_each_entry (entry, list, head) {
+		if (entry->obj == res_obj) {
 			res_obj = NULL;
 			continue;
 		}
 		ret = ww_mutex_lock(&entry->obj->lock, ctx);
 		if (ret < 0) {
-			contended_obj = entry;
+			contended_entry = entry;
 			goto err;
 		}
 	}
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ retry:
 	return 0;
 
 err:
-	list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse (list, contended_entry, entry)
+	list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse (entry, list, head)
 		ww_mutex_unlock(&entry->obj->lock);
 
 	if (res_obj)
@@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ int lock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 
 	ww_acquire_init(ctx, &ww_class);
 
-	list_for_each_entry (list, entry) {
+	list_for_each_entry (entry, list, head) {
 		ret = ww_mutex_lock(&entry->obj->lock, ctx);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			entry2 = entry;
 
-			list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse (list, entry2)
-				ww_mutex_unlock(&entry->obj->lock);
+			list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse (entry2, list, head)
+				ww_mutex_unlock(&entry2->obj->lock);
 
 			if (ret != -EDEADLK) {
 				ww_acquire_fini(ctx);
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ int lock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 			 * buf->next to the first unlocked entry,
 			 * restarting the for loop.
 			 */
-			list_del(&entry->list);
-			list_add(&entry->list, list);
+			list_del(&entry->head);
+			list_add(&entry->head, list);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ void unlock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 {
 	struct obj_entry *entry;
 
-	list_for_each_entry (list, entry)
+	list_for_each_entry (entry, list, head)
 		ww_mutex_unlock(&entry->obj->lock);
 
 	ww_acquire_fini(ctx);
@@ -244,22 +244,21 @@ struct obj {
 
 static DEFINE_WW_CLASS(ww_class);
 
-void __unlock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
+void __unlock_objs(struct list_head *list)
 {
-	struct obj entry;
+	struct obj *entry, *temp;
 
-	for_each_safe (list, entry) {
+	list_for_each_entry_safe (entry, temp, list, locked_list) {
 		/* need to do that before unlocking, since only the current lock holder is
 		allowed to use object */
-		list_del(entry->locked_list);
+		list_del(&entry->locked_list);
 		ww_mutex_unlock(entry->ww_mutex)
 	}
 }
 
 void lock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	struct list_head locked_buffers;
-	struct obj obj = NULL, entry;
+	struct obj *obj;
 
 	ww_acquire_init(ctx, &ww_class);
 
@@ -275,15 +274,15 @@ retry:
 			continue;
 		}
 		if (ret == -EDEADLK) {
-			__unlock_objs(list, ctx);
+			__unlock_objs(list);
 
 			ww_mutex_lock_slow(obj, ctx);
-			list_add(locked_buffers, entry->locked_list);
+			list_add(&entry->locked_list, list);
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
 		/* locked a new object, add it to the list */
-		list_add(locked_buffers, entry->locked_list);
+		list_add_tail(&entry->locked_list, list);
 	}
 
 	ww_acquire_done(ctx);
@@ -292,7 +291,7 @@ retry:
 
 void unlock_objs(struct list_head *list, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 {
-	__unlock_objs(list, ctx);
+	__unlock_objs(list);
 	ww_acquire_fini(ctx);
 }
 

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