Re: [PATCH v11 0/4] Introducing a queue read/write lockimplementation

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jan 30 2014 - 12:54:40 EST


Hi Peter,

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:44:00PM +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Something like this would work for ARM and PPC, although I didn't do the
> PPC variant of atomic_sub_release().
>
>
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,21 @@ static inline void atomic_sub(int i, ato
> : "cc");
> }
>
> +static inline void atomic_sub_release(int i, atomic_t *v)
> +{
> + unsigned long tmp;
> + int result;
> +
> + asm volatile("// atomic_sub\n"
> +"1: ldxr %w0, %2\n"
> +" sub %w0, %w0, %w3\n"
> +" stlxr %w1, %w0, %2\n"
> +" cbnz %w1, 1b"
> + : "=&r" (result), "=&r" (tmp), "+Q" (v->counter)
> + : "Ir" (i)
> + : "cc");

Probably want to replace this "cc" with a "memory".

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/qrwlock.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +#ifndef _ASM_ARM64_QRWLOCK_H
> +#define _ASM_ARM64_QRWLOCK_H
> +
> +#include <asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h>
> +
> +#define queue_read_unlock queue_read_unlock
> +static inline void queue_read_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
> +{
> + atomic_sub_release(_QR_BIAS, &lock->cnts);
> +}
> +
> +#define queue_write_unlock queue_write_unlock
> +static inline void queue_write_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock)
> +{
> + atomic_sub_release(_QW_LOCKED, &lock->cnts);
> +}
> +
> +#include <asm-generic/qrwlock.h>
> +
> +#endif /* _ASM_ARM64_QRWLOCK_H */

It would be nice if these were default implementations of the unlock, then
architectures just implement atomic_sub_release how they like.

One thing worth mentioning: I have a fairly invasive set of changes pending
for arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h, so if you do decide to go with this,
I'm more than happy to take the sub_release part via the arm64 tree. I guess
it depends on when this is likely to get merged.

Cheers,

Will
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