From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754071AbeDKSCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:02:54 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:52156 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752669AbeDKSBH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:01:07 -0400 From: Will Deacon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, longman@redhat.com, Will Deacon Subject: [PATCH v2 12/13] locking/qspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg when locking Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:01:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1523469680-17699-13-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1523469680-17699-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> References: <1523469680-17699-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When reaching the head of an uncontended queue on the qspinlock slow-path, using a try_cmpxchg instead of a cmpxchg operation to transition the lock work to _Q_LOCKED_VAL generates slightly better code for x86 and pretty much identical code for arm64. Cc: Ingo Molnar Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index fa5d2ab369f9..1e3ddc42135e 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -467,16 +467,15 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) * Otherwise, we only need to grab the lock. */ - /* In the PV case we might already have _Q_LOCKED_VAL set */ - if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) == tail) { - /* - * The atomic_cond_read_acquire() call above has provided the - * necessary acquire semantics required for locking. - */ - old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL); - if (old == val) - goto release; /* No contention */ - } + /* + * In the PV case we might already have _Q_LOCKED_VAL set. + * + * The atomic_cond_read_acquire() call above has provided the + * necessary acquire semantics required for locking. + */ + if (((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) == tail) && + atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, &val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL)) + goto release; /* No contention */ /* Either somebody is queued behind us or _Q_PENDING_VAL is set */ set_locked(lock); -- 2.1.4