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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:41:33 -0800
From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
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>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] MCS Lock: Make mcs_spinlock.h includable in
other files
On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 13:37 -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> The following changes are made to enable mcs_spinlock.h file to be
> widely included in other files without causing problem:
>
> 1) Include a number of prerequisite header files and define
> arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), if not previously defined.
> 2) Make mcs_spin_unlock() an inlined function and
> rename mcs_spin_lock() to _raw_mcs_spin_lock() which is also an
> inlined function.
> 3) Create a new mcs_spinlock.c file to contain the non-inlined
> mcs_spin_lock() function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Should be Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> kernel/Makefile | 6 +++---
> kernel/mcs_spinlock.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/mcs_spinlock.c
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> index 93d445d..f2c71e8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mcs_spinlock.h
> @@ -12,11 +12,27 @@
> #ifndef __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
> #define __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
>
> +/*
> + * asm/processor.h may define arch_mutex_cpu_relax().
> + * If it is not defined, cpu_relax() will be used.
> + */
> +#include <asm/barrier.h>
> +#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
> +#include <asm/processor.h>
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> +
> +#ifndef arch_mutex_cpu_relax
> +# define arch_mutex_cpu_relax() cpu_relax()
> +#endif
> +
> struct mcs_spinlock {
> struct mcs_spinlock *next;
> int locked; /* 1 if lock acquired */
> };
>
> +extern
> +void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node);
> +
> /*
> * In order to acquire the lock, the caller should declare a local node and
> * pass a reference of the node to this function in addition to the lock.
> @@ -24,11 +40,11 @@ struct mcs_spinlock {
> * on this node->locked until the previous lock holder sets the node->locked
> * in mcs_spin_unlock().
> *
> - * We don't inline mcs_spin_lock() so that perf can correctly account for the
> - * time spent in this lock function.
> + * The _raw_mcs_spin_lock() function should not be called directly. Instead,
> + * users should call mcs_spin_lock().
> */
> -static noinline
> -void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +static inline
> +void _raw_mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> {
> struct mcs_spinlock *prev;
>
> @@ -55,7 +71,8 @@ void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> * Releases the lock. The caller should pass in the corresponding node that
> * was used to acquire the lock.
> */
> -static void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +static inline
> +void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> {
> struct mcs_spinlock *next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index 1ce4755..2ad8454 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += smp.o
> ifneq ($(CONFIG_SMP),y)
> obj-y += up.o
> endif
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += spinlock.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) += spinlock.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) += spinlock.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += spinlock.o mcs_spinlock.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) += spinlock.o mcs_spinlock.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) += spinlock.o mcs_spinlock.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_UID16) += uid16.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += module.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG) += module_signing.o modsign_pubkey.o modsign_certificate.o
> diff --git a/kernel/mcs_spinlock.c b/kernel/mcs_spinlock.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3c55626
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/mcs_spinlock.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +/*
> + * 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.
> + */
> +#include <linux/mcs_spinlock.h>
> +#include <linux/export.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * We don't inline mcs_spin_lock() so that perf can correctly account for the
> + * time spent in this lock function.
> + */
> +void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +{
> + _raw_mcs_spin_lock(lock, node);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mcs_spin_lock);
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