Commit-ID:  c131a198c497db436b558ac5e9a140cdcb91b304
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/c131a198c497db436b558ac5e9a140cdcb91b304
Author:     Will Deacon <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:34:23 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:48:50 +0200

locking/qspinlock: Use smp_cond_load_relaxed() to wait for next node

When a locker reaches the head of the queue and takes the lock, a
concurrent locker may enqueue and force the lock holder to spin
whilst its node->next field is initialised. Rather than open-code
a READ_ONCE/cpu_relax() loop, this can be implemented using
smp_cond_load_relaxed() instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 56af1fa9874d..d6c3b029bd93 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -483,10 +483,8 @@ locked:
        /*
         * contended path; wait for next if not observed yet, release.
         */
-       if (!next) {
-               while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next)))
-                       cpu_relax();
-       }
+       if (!next)
+               next = smp_cond_load_relaxed(&node->next, (VAL));
 
        arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(&next->locked);
        pv_kick_node(lock, next);

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