As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic:
Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly
ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking
and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently
only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking
primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the
necessary machinery is implemented of course.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> --- kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h index fd91aaa..5b9102a 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h +++ b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node) node->locked = 0; node->next = NULL; - prev = xchg(lock, node); + prev = xchg_acquire(lock, node); if (likely(prev == NULL)) { /* * Lock acquired, don't need to set node->locked to 1. Threads @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node) /* * Release the lock by setting it to NULL */ - if (likely(cmpxchg(lock, node, NULL) == node)) + if (likely(cmpxchg_release(lock, node, NULL) == node)) return; /* Wait until the next pointer is set */ while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next))) -- 2.1.4 -- 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/
