linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait

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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:01:36 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, oleg@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait

The use of any kind of wait queue is an overkill for pcpu-rwsems.
While one option would be to use the less heavy simple (swait)
flavor, this is still too much for what pcpu-rwsems needs. For one,
we do not care about any sort of queuing in that the only (rare) time
writers (and readers, for that matter) are queued is when trying to
acquire the regular contended rw_sem. There cannot be any further
queuing as writers are serialized by the rw_sem in the first place.

Given that percpu_down_write() must not be called after exit_notify(),
we can replace the bulky waitqueue with rcuwait such that a writer
can wait for its turn to take the lock. As such, we can avoid the
queue handling and locking overhead.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
---
 include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h  | 8 ++++----
 kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
index 5b2e6159b744..93664f022ecf 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
-#include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <linux/rcuwait.h>
 #include <linux/rcu_sync.h>
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
 
 struct percpu_rw_semaphore {
 	struct rcu_sync		rss;
 	unsigned int __percpu	*read_count;
-	struct rw_semaphore	rw_sem;
-	wait_queue_head_t	writer;
+	struct rw_semaphore	rw_sem; /* slowpath */
+	struct rcuwait          writer; /* blocked writer */
 	int			readers_block;
 };
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static struct percpu_rw_semaphore name = {				\
 	.rss = __RCU_SYNC_INITIALIZER(name.rss, RCU_SCHED_SYNC),	\
 	.read_count = &__percpu_rwsem_rc_##name,			\
 	.rw_sem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name.rw_sem),			\
-	.writer = __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(name.writer),		\
+	.writer = __RCUWAIT_INITIALIZER(name.writer),			\
 }
 
 extern int __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *, int);
diff --git a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
index ce182599cf2e..e2502d6ec82f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
-#include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
 #include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ int __percpu_init_rwsem(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem,
 	/* ->rw_sem represents the whole percpu_rw_semaphore for lockdep */
 	rcu_sync_init(&sem->rss, RCU_SCHED_SYNC);
 	__init_rwsem(&sem->rw_sem, name, rwsem_key);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&sem->writer);
+	rcuwait_init(&sem->writer);
 	sem->readers_block = 0;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ void __percpu_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	__this_cpu_dec(*sem->read_count);
 
 	/* Prod writer to recheck readers_active */
-	wake_up(&sem->writer);
+	rcuwait_trywake(&sem->writer);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__percpu_up_read);
 
@@ -160,7 +159,7 @@ void percpu_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	 */
 
 	/* Wait for all now active readers to complete. */
-	wait_event(sem->writer, readers_active_check(sem));
+	rcuwait_wait_event(&sem->writer, readers_active_check(sem));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(percpu_down_write);
 
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