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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] locking/rwsem: Disable optimistic spinning for PA-RISC
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On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 19:53 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:22:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > +config ARCH_NO_ATOMIC_RMW
> > > + def_bool y
> > > + depends on PARISC || SPARC32 || METAG_ATOMICITY_LOCK1 || (TILE && !TILEGX) || (ARC && !ARC_HAS_LLSC)
> >
> > Ugh. We've had these kinds of things before, and they are broken and
> > nasty to maintain.
> >
> > Just make it
> >
> > config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
> > bool
> >
> > which defaults to no. And then make MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER depend on that.
>
> ---
> Subject: locking, mutex: Make optimistic spinning depend on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
>
> The optimistic spin code assumes regular stores and cmpxchg() play nice;
> this is found to not be true for at least: parisc, sparc32, tile32,
> metag-lock1, arc-!llsc and hexagon.
>
> There is further wreckage, but this in particular seemed easy to
> trigger, so blacklist this.
>
> Opt in for known good archs.
>
> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> kernel/Kconfig.locks | 5 ++++-
> 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index a2c1a18a7275..b8a6a5078eae 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config ARM
> select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
> select ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
> select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
> select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
> select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
> select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 5c30b10c0f6c..339dc07f15e2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config ARM64
> select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
> select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
> select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
> select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
> select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index e0998997943b..5bb96f282373 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ config PPC
> select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
> select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF if PPC64
> select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
>
> config GENERIC_CSUM
> def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> index 29f2e988c56a..407c87d9879a 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ config SPARC64
> select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
> select NO_BOOTMEM
> select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW

Sparc64 does, Sparc32 doesn't, so shouldn't that be

select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW if 64BIT

?

Other than this, looks good to me (you can add reviewed by or acked by
from me to your taste).

James




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