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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-17 08:45:23 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-17 08:45:23 -0700 |
commit | 9786cff38a31c452e32fd2f9a479dd7d19d91712 (patch) | |
tree | 1197c2e7a4e8973d19919f54f342fba6067488e2 | |
parent | 1b3dfde386b7c72b8f5430dc40eee538eb40c948 (diff) | |
parent | 1975dbc276c6ab62230cf4f9df5ddc9ff0e0e473 (diff) |
Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Spinlock performance regression fix, plus documentation fixes"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation
locking/qspinlock/x86: Only emit the test-and-set fallback when building guest support
locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs
locking/static_keys: Fix a silly typo
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/static-keys.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 19 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/jump_label.h | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 2 |
5 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/static-keys.txt b/Documentation/static-keys.txt index f4cb0b2d5cd7..477927becacb 100644 --- a/Documentation/static-keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/static-keys.txt @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ The updated API replacements are: DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(key); DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(key); -static_key_likely() -statick_key_unlikely() +static_branch_likely() +static_branch_unlikely() 0) Abstract diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h index 9d51fae1cba3..eaba08076030 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h @@ -39,18 +39,27 @@ static inline void queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock) } #endif -#define virt_queued_spin_lock virt_queued_spin_lock - -static inline bool virt_queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock) +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT +#define virt_spin_lock virt_spin_lock +static inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock) { if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) return false; - while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0) - cpu_relax(); + /* + * On hypervisors without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS support we fall + * back to a Test-and-Set spinlock, because fair locks have + * horrible lock 'holder' preemption issues. + */ + + do { + while (atomic_read(&lock->val) != 0) + cpu_relax(); + } while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0); return true; } +#endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT */ #include <asm-generic/qspinlock.h> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h index 83bfb87f5bf1..e2aadbc7151f 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static inline void queued_spin_unlock_wait(struct qspinlock *lock) cpu_relax(); } -#ifndef virt_queued_spin_lock -static __always_inline bool virt_queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock) +#ifndef virt_spin_lock +static __always_inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock) { return false; } diff --git a/include/linux/jump_label.h b/include/linux/jump_label.h index 7f653e8f6690..f1094238ab2a 100644 --- a/include/linux/jump_label.h +++ b/include/linux/jump_label.h @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ * * DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(key); * DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(key); - * static_key_likely() - * statick_key_unlikely() + * static_branch_likely() + * static_branch_unlikely() * * Jump labels provide an interface to generate dynamic branches using * self-modifying code. Assuming toolchain and architecture support, if we @@ -45,12 +45,10 @@ * statement, setting the key to true requires us to patch in a jump * to the out-of-line of true branch. * - * In addtion to static_branch_{enable,disable}, we can also reference count + * In addition to static_branch_{enable,disable}, we can also reference count * the key or branch direction via static_branch_{inc,dec}. Thus, * static_branch_inc() can be thought of as a 'make more true' and - * static_branch_dec() as a 'make more false'. The inc()/dec() - * interface is meant to be used exclusively from the inc()/dec() for a given - * key. + * static_branch_dec() as a 'make more false'. * * Since this relies on modifying code, the branch modifying functions * must be considered absolute slow paths (machine wide synchronization etc.). diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 337c8818541d..87e9ce6a63c5 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) if (pv_enabled()) goto queue; - if (virt_queued_spin_lock(lock)) + if (virt_spin_lock(lock)) return; /* |