Commit-ID: 0d968dd8c6aced585b86fa7ba8ce4573bf19e848 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0d968dd8c6aced585b86fa7ba8ce4573bf19e848 Author: Jason Low <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:37:22 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 11:25:42 +0200
locking/mutexes: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlocked Upon entering the slowpath in __mutex_lock_common(), we try once more to acquire the mutex. We only try to acquire if (lock->count >= 0). However, what we actually want here is to try to acquire if the mutex is unlocked (lock->count == 1). This patch changes it so that we only try-acquire the mutex upon entering the slowpath if it is unlocked, rather than if the lock count is non-negative. This helps further reduce unnecessary atomic xchg() operations. Furthermore, this patch uses !mutex_is_locked(lock) to do the initial checks for if the lock is free rather than directly calling atomic_read() on the lock->count, in order to improve readability. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]> Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- kernel/locking/mutex.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c index 4bd9546..e4d997b 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c @@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass, if (owner && !mutex_spin_on_owner(lock, owner)) break; - if ((atomic_read(&lock->count) == 1) && + /* Try to acquire the mutex if it is unlocked. */ + if (!mutex_is_locked(lock) && (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->count, 1, 0) == 1)) { lock_acquired(&lock->dep_map, ip); if (use_ww_ctx) { @@ -479,9 +480,9 @@ slowpath: /* * Once more, try to acquire the lock. Only try-lock the mutex if - * lock->count >= 0 to reduce unnecessary xchg operations. + * it is unlocked to reduce unnecessary xchg() operations. */ - if (atomic_read(&lock->count) >= 0 && (atomic_xchg(&lock->count, 0) == 1)) + if (!mutex_is_locked(lock) && (atomic_xchg(&lock->count, 0) == 1)) goto skip_wait; debug_mutex_lock_common(lock, &waiter); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
