From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
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Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v9 01/12] asm-generic: barrier: Add smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout()
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 18:31:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260209023153.2661784-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260209023153.2661784-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Add smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout(), which extends
smp_cond_load_relaxed() to allow waiting for a duration.
We loop around waiting for the condition variable to change while
peridically doing a time-check. The loop uses cpu_poll_relax() to slow
down the busy-waiting, which, unless overridden by the architecture
code, amounts to a cpu_relax().
Note that there are two ways for the time-check to fail: the usual
timeout case or, @time_expr_ns returning an invalid value (negative
or zero). The second failure mode allows for clocks attached to the
clock-domain of @cond_expr, which might cease to operate meaningfully
once some state internal to @cond_expr has changed.
Evaluation of @time_expr_ns: in the fastpath we want to keep the
performance close to smp_cond_load_relaxed(). To do that we defer
evaluation of the potentially costly @time_expr_ns to when we hit
the slowpath.
This also means that there will always be some hardware dependent
duration that has passed in cpu_poll_relax() iterations at the time of
first evaluation. Additionally cpu_poll_relax() is not guaranteed to
return at timeout boundary. In sum, expect timeout overshoot when we
exit due to expiration of the timeout.
The number of spin iterations before time-check, SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT
is chosen to be 200 by default. With a cpu_poll_relax() iteration
taking ~20-30 cycles (measured on a variety of x86 platforms), we expect
a tim-check every ~4000-6000 cycles.
The outer limit of the overshoot is double that when working with the
parameters above. This might be higher or lower depending on the
implementation of cpu_poll_relax() across architectures.
Lastly, config option ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX indicates availability of a
cpu_poll_relax() that is cheaper than polling. This might be relevant
for cases with a prolonged timeout.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
---
Notes:
- Defer evaluation of @time_expr_ns to when we hit the slowpath.
- This also helps get rid of the labelled gotos which were used to
handle the early failure case (since now there's no early init
to be concerned with.)
- Add a comment mentioning that the cpu_poll_relax() implementation
is better than polling if ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX.
include/asm-generic/barrier.h | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
index d4f581c1e21d..2738fe35c1df 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
@@ -273,6 +273,68 @@ do { \
})
#endif
+/*
+ * Number of times we iterate in the loop before doing the time check.
+ */
+#ifndef SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT
+#define SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT 200
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Platforms with ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX have a cpu_poll_relax() implementation
+ * that is expected to be cheaper (lower power) than pure polling.
+ */
+#ifndef cpu_poll_relax
+#define cpu_poll_relax(ptr, val, timeout_ns) cpu_relax()
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout() - (Spin) wait for cond with no ordering
+ * guarantees until a timeout expires.
+ * @ptr: pointer to the variable to wait on.
+ * @cond: boolean expression to wait for.
+ * @time_expr_ns: expression that evaluates to monotonic time (in ns) or,
+ * on failure, returns a negative value.
+ * @timeout_ns: timeout value in ns
+ * Both of the above are assumed to be compatible with s64; the signed
+ * value is used to handle the failure case in @time_expr_ns.
+ *
+ * Equivalent to using READ_ONCE() on the condition variable.
+ *
+ * Callers that expect to wait for prolonged durations might want to
+ * take into account the availability of ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX.
+ */
+#ifndef smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout
+#define smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout(ptr, cond_expr, \
+ time_expr_ns, timeout_ns) \
+({ \
+ typeof(ptr) __PTR = (ptr); \
+ __unqual_scalar_typeof(*ptr) VAL; \
+ u32 __n = 0, __spin = SMP_TIMEOUT_POLL_COUNT; \
+ s64 __timeout = (s64)timeout_ns; \
+ s64 __time_now, __time_end = 0; \
+ \
+ for (;;) { \
+ VAL = READ_ONCE(*__PTR); \
+ if (cond_expr) \
+ break; \
+ cpu_poll_relax(__PTR, VAL, (u64)__timeout); \
+ if (++__n < __spin) \
+ continue; \
+ __time_now = (s64)(time_expr_ns); \
+ if (unlikely(__time_end == 0)) \
+ __time_end = __time_now + __timeout; \
+ __timeout = __time_end - __time_now; \
+ if (__time_now <= 0 || __timeout <= 0) { \
+ VAL = READ_ONCE(*__PTR); \
+ break; \
+ } \
+ __n = 0; \
+ } \
+ (typeof(*ptr))VAL; \
+})
+#endif
+
/*
* pmem_wmb() ensures that all stores for which the modification
* are written to persistent storage by preceding instructions have
--
2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-09 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-09 2:31 [PATCH v9 00/12] barrier: Add smp_cond_load_{relaxed,acquire}_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2026-02-09 4:57 ` [PATCH v9 01/12] asm-generic: barrier: Add smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout() Randy Dunlap
2026-02-10 5:52 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 15:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-11 22:17 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-12 9:56 ` David Laight
2026-02-14 4:58 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-14 11:31 ` David Laight
2026-02-18 6:33 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 02/12] arm64: barrier: Support smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 15:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-11 22:57 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 03/12] arm64/delay: move some constants out to a separate header Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 16:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 04/12] arm64: support WFET in smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 17:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-11 23:13 ` Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 05/12] arm64: rqspinlock: Remove private copy of smp_cond_load_acquire_timewait() Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 06/12] asm-generic: barrier: Add smp_cond_load_acquire_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 4:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 07/12] atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_*_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 17:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 08/12] locking/atomic: scripts: build atomic_long_cond_read_*_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-11 17:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 09/12] bpf/rqspinlock: switch check_timeout() to a clock interface Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 3:05 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 10/12] bpf/rqspinlock: Use smp_cond_load_acquire_timeout() Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 11/12] sched: add need-resched timed wait interface Ankur Arora
2026-02-09 3:05 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-02-09 2:31 ` [PATCH v9 12/12] cpuidle/poll_state: Wait for need-resched via tif_need_resched_relaxed_wait() Ankur Arora
2026-02-10 16:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2026-02-11 0:29 ` Ankur Arora
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