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rwsem: skip initial trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed
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We can skip the initial trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed() if there
are known active lockers already, thus saving one likely-to-fail
cmpxchg.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michel Lespinasse authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 7, 2013
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17 changes: 9 additions & 8 deletions lib/rwsem.c
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Expand Up @@ -216,22 +216,23 @@ struct rw_semaphore __sched *rwsem_down_write_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
/* wait until we successfully acquire the lock */
set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
while (true) {

/* Try acquiring the write lock. */
count = RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS;
if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
count += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
if (cmpxchg(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, count) ==
if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)) {
/* Try acquiring the write lock. */
count = RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS;
if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
count += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
if (cmpxchg(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, count) ==
RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
break;
break;
}

raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);

/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
do {
schedule();
set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
} while (sem->count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK);
} while ((count = sem->count) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK);

raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
}
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