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Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:51:01 -0300
From:	Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	"Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/9] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and
 locking code into its own file

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> We will need the MCS lock code for doing optimistic spinning for rwsem.
> Extracting the MCS code from mutex.c and put into its own file allow us
> to reuse this code easily for rwsem.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h |   64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mutex.h        |    5 ++-
>  kernel/mutex.c               |   60 ++++----------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b5de3b0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
> +/*
> + * MCS lock defines
> + *
> + * This file contains the main data structure and API definitions of MCS lock.
> + *
> + * The MCS lock (proposed by Mellor-Crummey and Scott) is a simple spin-lock
> + * with the desirable properties of being fair, and with each cpu trying
> + * to acquire the lock spinning on a local variable.
> + * It avoids expensive cache bouncings that common test-and-set spin-lock
> + * implementations incur.
> + */

nitpick:

I believe you need 

+#include <asm/processor.h>

here, to avoid breaking the build when arch_mutex_cpu_relax() is not defined
(arch/s390 is one case)

> +#ifndef __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
> +#define __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
> +
> +struct mcs_spinlock {
> +	struct mcs_spinlock *next;
> +	int locked; /* 1 if lock acquired */
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * We don't inline mcs_spin_lock() so that perf can correctly account for the
> + * time spent in this lock function.
> + */
> +static noinline
> +void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +{
> +	struct mcs_spinlock *prev;
> +
> +	/* Init node */
> +	node->locked = 0;
> +	node->next   = NULL;
> +
> +	prev = xchg(lock, node);
> +	if (likely(prev == NULL)) {
> +		/* Lock acquired */
> +		node->locked = 1;
> +		return;
> +	}
> +	ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node;
> +	smp_wmb();
> +	/* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down */
> +	while (!ACCESS_ONCE(node->locked))
> +		arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
> +}
> +
> +static void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +{
> +	struct mcs_spinlock *next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next);
> +
> +	if (likely(!next)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Release the lock by setting it to NULL
> +		 */
> +		if (cmpxchg(lock, node, NULL) == node)
> +			return;
> +		/* Wait until the next pointer is set */
> +		while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
> +			arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
> +	}
> +	ACCESS_ONCE(next->locked) = 1;
> +	smp_wmb();
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
> index ccd4260..e6eaeea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mutex.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
>   * - detects multi-task circular deadlocks and prints out all affected
>   *   locks and tasks (and only those tasks)
>   */
> +struct mcs_spinlock;
>  struct mutex {
>  	/* 1: unlocked, 0: locked, negative: locked, possible waiters */
>  	atomic_t		count;
> @@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ struct mutex {
>  	struct task_struct	*owner;
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
> -	void			*spin_mlock;	/* Spinner MCS lock */
> +	struct mcs_spinlock	*mcs_lock;	/* Spinner MCS lock */
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
>  	const char 		*name;
> @@ -179,4 +180,4 @@ extern int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock);
>  #define arch_mutex_cpu_relax()	cpu_relax()
>  #endif
>  
> -#endif
> +#endif /* __LINUX_MUTEX_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/mutex.c b/kernel/mutex.c
> index 6d647ae..4640731 100644
> --- a/kernel/mutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/mutex.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>  #include <linux/debug_locks.h>
> +#include <linux/mcs_spinlock.h>
>  
>  /*
>   * In the DEBUG case we are using the "NULL fastpath" for mutexes,
> @@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ __mutex_init(struct mutex *lock, const char *name, struct lock_class_key *key)
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lock->wait_list);
>  	mutex_clear_owner(lock);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
> -	lock->spin_mlock = NULL;
> +	lock->mcs_lock = NULL;
>  #endif
>  
>  	debug_mutex_init(lock, name, key);
> @@ -111,54 +112,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mutex_lock);
>   * more or less simultaneously, the spinners need to acquire a MCS lock
>   * first before spinning on the owner field.
>   *
> - * We don't inline mspin_lock() so that perf can correctly account for the
> - * time spent in this lock function.
>   */
> -struct mspin_node {
> -	struct mspin_node *next ;
> -	int		  locked;	/* 1 if lock acquired */
> -};
> -#define	MLOCK(mutex)	((struct mspin_node **)&((mutex)->spin_mlock))
> -
> -static noinline
> -void mspin_lock(struct mspin_node **lock, struct mspin_node *node)
> -{
> -	struct mspin_node *prev;
> -
> -	/* Init node */
> -	node->locked = 0;
> -	node->next   = NULL;
> -
> -	prev = xchg(lock, node);
> -	if (likely(prev == NULL)) {
> -		/* Lock acquired */
> -		node->locked = 1;
> -		return;
> -	}
> -	ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node;
> -	smp_wmb();
> -	/* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down */
> -	while (!ACCESS_ONCE(node->locked))
> -		arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
> -}
> -
> -static void mspin_unlock(struct mspin_node **lock, struct mspin_node *node)
> -{
> -	struct mspin_node *next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next);
> -
> -	if (likely(!next)) {
> -		/*
> -		 * Release the lock by setting it to NULL
> -		 */
> -		if (cmpxchg(lock, node, NULL) == node)
> -			return;
> -		/* Wait until the next pointer is set */
> -		while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
> -			arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
> -	}
> -	ACCESS_ONCE(next->locked) = 1;
> -	smp_wmb();
> -}
>  
>  /*
>   * Mutex spinning code migrated from kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -448,7 +402,7 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
>  
>  	for (;;) {
>  		struct task_struct *owner;
> -		struct mspin_node  node;
> +		struct mcs_spinlock  node;
>  
>  		if (!__builtin_constant_p(ww_ctx == NULL) && ww_ctx->acquired > 0) {
>  			struct ww_mutex *ww;
> @@ -470,10 +424,10 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
>  		 * If there's an owner, wait for it to either
>  		 * release the lock or go to sleep.
>  		 */
> -		mspin_lock(MLOCK(lock), &node);
> +		mcs_spin_lock(&lock->mcs_lock, &node);
>  		owner = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->owner);
>  		if (owner && !mutex_spin_on_owner(lock, owner)) {
> -			mspin_unlock(MLOCK(lock), &node);
> +			mcs_spin_unlock(&lock->mcs_lock, &node);
>  			goto slowpath;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -488,11 +442,11 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
>  			}
>  
>  			mutex_set_owner(lock);
> -			mspin_unlock(MLOCK(lock), &node);
> +			mcs_spin_unlock(&lock->mcs_lock, &node);
>  			preempt_enable();
>  			return 0;
>  		}
> -		mspin_unlock(MLOCK(lock), &node);
> +		mcs_spin_unlock(&lock->mcs_lock, &node);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * When there's no owner, we might have preempted between the
> -- 
> 1.7.4.4
> 
> 
> 
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