Commit 5c1eabe6 authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Linus Torvalds
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percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers



This patch introduces new barrier pair light_mb() and heavy_mb() for
percpu rw semaphores.

This patch fixes a bug in percpu-rw-semaphores where a barrier was
missing in percpu_up_write.

This patch improves performance on the read path of
percpu-rw-semaphores: on non-x86 cpus, there was a smp_mb() in
percpu_up_read. This patch changes it to a compiler barrier and removes
the "#if defined(X86) ..." condition.

From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e657e078
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ struct percpu_rw_semaphore {
	struct mutex mtx;
};

#define light_mb()	barrier()
#define heavy_mb()	synchronize_sched()

static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -24,22 +27,12 @@ static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
	}
	this_cpu_inc(*p->counters);
	rcu_read_unlock();
	light_mb(); /* A, between read of p->locked and read of data, paired with D */
}

static inline void percpu_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
	/*
	 * On X86, write operation in this_cpu_dec serves as a memory unlock
	 * barrier (i.e. memory accesses may be moved before the write, but
	 * no memory accesses are moved past the write).
	 * On other architectures this may not be the case, so we need smp_mb()
	 * there.
	 */
#if defined(CONFIG_X86) && (!defined(CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE) && !defined(CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE))
	barrier();
#else
	smp_mb();
#endif
	light_mb(); /* B, between read of the data and write to p->counter, paired with C */
	this_cpu_dec(*p->counters);
}

@@ -61,11 +54,12 @@ static inline void percpu_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
	synchronize_rcu();
	while (__percpu_count(p->counters))
		msleep(1);
	smp_rmb(); /* paired with smp_mb() in percpu_sem_up_read() */
	heavy_mb(); /* C, between read of p->counter and write to data, paired with B */
}

static inline void percpu_up_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
	heavy_mb(); /* D, between write to data and write to p->locked, paired with A */
	p->locked = false;
	mutex_unlock(&p->mtx);
}