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Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper acquire/release barrier

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper acquire/release barrier
Date 2016-06-15 19:20 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:56:59AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Waiman Long wrote:

> >+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
> >@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
> >	 * cmpxchg in an attempt to undo our queueing.
> >	 */
> >
> >-	while (!READ_ONCE(node->locked)) {
> >+	while (!smp_load_acquire(&node->locked)) {
> 
> Hmm this being a polling path, that barrier can get pretty expensive and
> last I checked it was unnecessary:

I think he'll go rely on it later on.

In any case, its fairly simple to cure, just add
smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() at the end. If we bail because
need_resched() we don't need the acquire I think.

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[RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper acquire/release barrier Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2016-06-15 00:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 10:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 19:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-16 04:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-06-16 12:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-17 02:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-06-17 17:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 10:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-06-20 10:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-15 19:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 19:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-15 20:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 20:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-15 21:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-17 03:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-17 18:30 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-06-17 18:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 1/6] locking/osq: Make lock/unlock proper  acquire/release barrier Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-16 00:00 +0200

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