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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 10/19] qspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a virtual guest
On 05/08/2014 03:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:01:38AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>
>
> No, we want the unfair thing for VIRT, not PARAVIRT.
>

Yes, you are right. I will change that to VIRT.

>> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> index 9e7659e..10e87e1 100644
>> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> @@ -227,6 +227,14 @@ static __always_inline int get_qlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>> {
>> struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_UNFAIR_LOCKS
>> + if (static_key_false(&paravirt_unfairlocks_enabled))
>> + /*
>> + * Need to use atomic operation to get the lock when
>> + * lock stealing can happen.
>> + */
>> + return cmpxchg(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0;
> That's missing {}.

It is a single statement which doesn't need braces according to kernel
coding style. I could move the comments up a bit to make it easier to read.

>> +#endif
>
>> barrier();
>> ACCESS_ONCE(l->locked) = _Q_LOCKED_VAL;
>> barrier();
>
> But no, what you want is:
>
> static __always_inline bool virt_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_MUCK
> if (static_key_false(&virt_unfairlocks_enabled)) {
> while (!queue_spin_trylock(lock))
> cpu_relax();
>
> return true;
> }
> #else
> return false;
> }
>
>
> void queue_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
> {
> if (virt_lock(lock))
> return;
>
> ...
> }

This is a possible way of doing it. I can do that in the patch series to
simplify it. Hopefully that will speed up the review process and get it
done quicker.

-Longman


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