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Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core v8 1/5] locking/qspinlock: Use _acquire/_release versions of cmpxchg & xchg

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Hi Waiman,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 06:51:03PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch replaces the cmpxchg() and xchg() calls in the native
> qspinlock code with the more relaxed _acquire or _release versions of
> those calls to enable other architectures to adopt queued spinlocks
> with less memory barrier performance overhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h |    9 +++++----
>  kernel/locking/qspinlock.c      |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
> index e2aadbc..39e1cb2 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
> @@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
>   * GNU General Public License for more details.
>   *
>   * (C) Copyright 2013-2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
> + * (C) Copyright 2015 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Development LP
>   *
> - * Authors: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
> + * Authors: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
>   */
>  #ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_QSPINLOCK_H
>  #define __ASM_GENERIC_QSPINLOCK_H
> @@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ static __always_inline int queued_spin_is_contended(struct qspinlock *lock)
>  static __always_inline int queued_spin_trylock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>  {
>  	if (!atomic_read(&lock->val) &&
> -	   (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0))
> +	   (atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0))
>  		return 1;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ static __always_inline void queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>  {
>  	u32 val;
>  
> -	val = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
> +	val = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
>  	if (likely(val == 0))
>  		return;
>  	queued_spin_lock_slowpath(lock, val);
> @@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ static __always_inline void queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>  	/*
>  	 * smp_mb__before_atomic() in order to guarantee release semantics
>  	 */
> -	smp_mb__before_atomic_dec();
> +	smp_mb__before_atomic();
>  	atomic_sub(_Q_LOCKED_VAL, &lock->val);

Just be curious, you don't use atomic_sub_release() here on purpose?

Regards,
Boqun

>  }
>  #endif

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Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core v8 1/5] locking/qspinlock: Use  _acquire/_release versions of cmpxchg & xchg Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core v8 1/5] locking/qspinlock: Use  _acquire/_release versions of cmpxchg & xchg Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-10-20 05:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core v8 1/5] locking/qspinlock: Use  _acquire/_release versions of cmpxchg & xchg Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:50 +0200

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