linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/6] kvfree_rcu: Make krc_this_cpu_unlock() use raw_spin_unlock

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Message-Id: <20210304001134.22977-3-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  3 Mar 2021 16:11:31 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/6] kvfree_rcu: Make krc_this_cpu_unlock() use raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

The krc_this_cpu_unlock() function does a raw_spin_unlock() immediately
followed by a local_irq_restore().  This commit saves a line of code by
merging them into a raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore().  This transformation
also reduces scheduling latency because raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore()
responds immediately to a reschedule request.  In contrast,
local_irq_restore() does a scheduling-oblivious enabling of interrupts.

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 08b5044..7ee83f3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -3229,8 +3229,7 @@ krc_this_cpu_lock(unsigned long *flags)
 static inline void
 krc_this_cpu_unlock(struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp, unsigned long flags)
 {
-	raw_spin_unlock(&krcp->lock);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&krcp->lock, flags);
 }
 
 static inline struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data *
-- 
2.9.5