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SubjectRe: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Add reader owned state to the owner field
On 05/04/2016 01:52 PM, Jason Low wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 13:27 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 05/03/2016 08:21 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Waiman Long wrote:
>>>> static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
>>>> @@ -378,7 +367,8 @@ static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct
>>>> rw_semaphore *sem)
>>>>
>>>> while (true) {
>>>> owner = READ_ONCE(sem->owner);
>>>> - if (owner&& !rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, owner))
>>>> + if (rwsem_is_writer_owned(owner)&&
>>>> + !rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, owner))
>>>> break;
>>>>
>>>> /* wait_lock will be acquired if write_lock is obtained */
>>>> @@ -391,9 +381,11 @@ static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct
>>>> rw_semaphore *sem)
>>>> * When there's no owner, we might have preempted between the
>>>> * owner acquiring the lock and setting the owner field. If
>>>> * we're an RT task that will live-lock because we won't let
>>>> - * the owner complete.
>>>> + * the owner complete. We also quit if the lock is owned by
>>>> + * readers.
>>>> */
>>>> - if (!owner&& (need_resched() || rt_task(current)))
>>>> + if ((owner == RWSEM_READER_OWNED) ||
> It would be good to provide and use a rwsem_is_reader_owned() function
> like we do with rwsem_is_writer_owned(), especially if we're going to
> add in the additional cast.
>

Yes, sure I can certainly add the rwsem_is_reader_owned() helper function.

Cheers,
Longman

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