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Commit 9d4646d1 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/qspinlock: Elide back-to-back RELEASE operations with smp_wmb()



The qspinlock slowpath must ensure that the MCS node is fully initialised
before it can be reached by another other CPU. This is currently enforced
by using a RELEASE operation when updating the tail and also when linking
the node into the waitqueue, since the control dependency off xchg_tail
is insufficient to enforce sufficient ordering, see:

  95bcade3 ("locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->next")

Back-to-back RELEASE operations may be expensive on some architectures,
particularly those that implement them using fences under the hood. We
can replace the two RELEASE operations with a single smp_wmb() fence and
use RELAXED operations for the subsequent publishing of the node.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-12-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 626e5fbc
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