[RFC] arm64: Implement WFE based spin wait for MCS spinlocks

From: Jason Low
Date: Thu Apr 14 2016 - 03:25:11 EST


Use WFE to avoid most spinning with MCS spinlocks. This is implemented
with the new cmpwait() mechanism for comparing and waiting for the MCS
locked value to change using LDXR + WFE.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/mcs_spinlock.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/mcs_spinlock.h

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mcs_spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mcs_spinlock.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d295d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mcs_spinlock.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
+#define __ASM_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
+
+#define arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l) \
+do { \
+ int locked_val; \
+ for (;;) { \
+ locked_val = READ_ONCE(*l); \
+ if (locked_val) \
+ break; \
+ cmpwait(l, locked_val); \
+ } \
+ smp_rmb(); \
+} while (0)
+
+#define arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(l) \
+do { \
+ smp_store_release(l, 1); \
+} while (0)
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MCS_SPINLOCK_H */
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