Subject: [PATCH 03/10] locking/qspinlock: Kill cmpxchg loop when claiming lock from head of queue

From: [email-masked] (Will Deacon)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 11:54:17 +0100

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 07:19:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > +
> > +	/* In the PV case we might already have _Q_LOCKED_VAL set */
> > +	if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) == tail) {
> >  		/*
> >  		 * The smp_cond_load_acquire() call above has provided the
> > +		 * necessary acquire semantics required for locking.
> >  		 */
> >  		old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
> >  		if (old == val)
> > +			goto release; /* No contention */
> >  	}
> 
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> @@ -464,8 +464,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qs
>  		 * The smp_cond_load_acquire() call above has provided the
>  		 * necessary acquire semantics required for locking.
>  		 */
> -		old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
> -		if (old == val)
> +		if (atomic_try_cmpxchg_release(&lock->val, &val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
>  			goto release; /* No contention */
>  	}
> 
> Does that also work for you? It would generate slightly better code for
> x86 (not that it would matter much on this path).

Assuming you meant to use atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed, then that works for
me too.

Will