Re: [PATCH 04/13] locking/qspinlock: move pv lock word helpers into qspinlock.c

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 7/4/22 10:38, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> There is no real reason not to keep all the bit manipulation together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
>   kernel/locking/qspinlock.c          | 107 ++++++++++++++++------------
>   kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h |  51 -------------
>   2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> index 7360d643de29..8f2173e22479 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> @@ -141,7 +141,24 @@ struct qnode *grab_qnode(struct qnode *base, int idx)
>   
>   #define _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK (_Q_LOCKED_MASK | _Q_PENDING_MASK)
>   
> +/**
> + * set_pending - set the pending bit.
> + * @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure
> + *
> + * *,0,* -> *,1,*
> + *
> + * The pending bit is used by the queue head vCPU to indicate that it
> + * is actively spinning on the lock and no lock stealing is allowed.

The pending bit has different usage in pv and non-pv cases. The 
description here refers to the pv case. For non-pv, it is used to avoid 
loading the the extra node cacheline in likely contended case.

Cheers,
Longman