linux-stable.git/include/linux/rwlock_types.h, branch v5.2.6 Linux kernel stable tree locking/core: Remove break_lock field when CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK=y 2017-12-12T10:24:01+00:00 Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com 2017-11-28T18:42:19+00:00 d89c70356acf11b7cf47ca5cfcafae5062a85451 When CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBEAK=y, locking structures grow an extra int ->break_lock field which is used to implement raw_spin_is_contended() by setting the field to 1 when waiting on a lock and clearing it to zero when holding a lock. However, there are a few problems with this approach: - There is a write-write race between a CPU successfully taking the lock (and subsequently writing break_lock = 0) and a waiter waiting on the lock (and subsequently writing break_lock = 1). This could result in a contended lock being reported as uncontended and vice-versa. - On machines with store buffers, nothing guarantees that the writes to break_lock are visible to other CPUs at any particular time. - READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE are not used, so the field is potentially susceptible to harmful compiler optimisations, Consequently, the usefulness of this field is unclear and we'd be better off removing it and allowing architectures to implement raw_spin_is_contended() by providing a definition of arch_spin_is_contended(), as they can when CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK=n. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511894539-7988-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
When CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBEAK=y, locking structures grow an extra int ->break_lock
field which is used to implement raw_spin_is_contended() by setting the field
to 1 when waiting on a lock and clearing it to zero when holding a lock.
However, there are a few problems with this approach:

  - There is a write-write race between a CPU successfully taking the lock
    (and subsequently writing break_lock = 0) and a waiter waiting on
    the lock (and subsequently writing break_lock = 1). This could result
    in a contended lock being reported as uncontended and vice-versa.

  - On machines with store buffers, nothing guarantees that the writes
    to break_lock are visible to other CPUs at any particular time.

  - READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE are not used, so the field is potentially
    susceptible to harmful compiler optimisations,

Consequently, the usefulness of this field is unclear and we'd be better off
removing it and allowing architectures to implement raw_spin_is_contended() by
providing a definition of arch_spin_is_contended(), as they can when
CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK=n.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511894539-7988-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers 2011-01-27T11:30:38+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2011-01-23T14:30:09+00:00 d04fa5a3ba06c3b7a1c4a6860d0fa4825507a755 Last users are gone. Remove the left overs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 
Last users are gone. Remove the left overs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock 2009-12-14T22:55:32+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2009-12-03T19:01:19+00:00 fb3a6bbc912b12347614e5742c7c61416cdb0ca0 Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org 
Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping
rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
locking: Split rwlock from spinlock headers 2009-12-14T22:55:32+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2009-11-07T22:04:15+00:00 ef12f10994281e2e44526fa0abf23fdd7d5bd87f Move the rwlock defines and inlines into separate header files. This makes the selection for -rt easier. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 
Move the rwlock defines and inlines into separate header files. This
makes the selection for -rt easier.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>