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Subject[PATCH 06/11] rwsem: wake queued readers when writer blocks on active read lock
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This change addresses the following situation:

- Thread A acquires the rwsem for read
- Thread B tries to acquire the rwsem for write, notices there is already
an active owner for the rwsem.
- Thread C tries to acquire the rwsem for read, notices that thread B already
tried to acquire it.
- Thread C grabs the spinlock and queues itself on the wait queue.
- Thread B grabs the spinlock and queues itself behind C. At this point A is
the only remaining active owner on the rwsem.

In this situation thread B could notice that it was the last active writer
on the rwsem, and decide to wake C to let it proceed in parallel with A
since they both only want the rwsem for read.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
---
lib/rwsem.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rwsem.c b/lib/rwsem.c
index a3e68bf..318d435 100644
--- a/lib/rwsem.c
+++ b/lib/rwsem.c
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
goto readers_only;

if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED)
+ /* Another active reader was observed, so wakeup is not
+ * likely to succeed. Save the atomic op.
+ */
goto out;

/* There's a writer at the front of the queue - try to grant it the
@@ -111,8 +114,8 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
* count adjustment pretty soon.
*/
if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_ANY &&
- (rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK))
- /* Someone grabbed the sem already */
+ rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
+ /* Someone grabbed the sem for write already */
goto out;

/* Grant an infinite number of read locks to the readers at the front
@@ -187,9 +190,17 @@ rwsem_down_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
count = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem);

- /* if there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up */
- if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK))
+ /* If there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up.
+ *
+ * Alternatively, if we're called from a failed down_write(), there
+ * were already threads queued before us and there are no active
+ * writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to wake any read
+ * locks that were queued ahead of us. */
+ if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_NO_ACTIVE);
+ else if (count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
+ adjustment == -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
+ sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED);

spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);

--
1.7.0.1


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