06 Feb, 2018
1 commit
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Moving the qrwlock struct definition into a header file introduced
a subtle bug on all little-endian machines, where some files in some
configurations would see the fields in an incorrect order. This was
found by building with an LTO enabled compiler that warns every time we
try to link together files with incompatible data structures.A second patch changes linux/kconfig.h to always define the symbols,
but this seems to be the root cause of most of the issues, so I'd suggest
we do both.On a current linux-next kernel, I verified that this header is
responsible for all type mismatches as a result from the endianess
confusion.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Babu Moger
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Nicolas Pitre
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Will Deacon
Fixes: e0d02285f16e ("locking/qrwlock: Use 'struct qrwlock' instead of 'struct __qrwlock'")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180202154104.1522809-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Conflicts:
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
include/linux/compiler-intel.h
include/uapi/linux/stddef.hSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
25 Oct, 2017
2 commits
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When a prospective writer takes the qrwlock locking slowpath due to the
lock being held, it attempts to cmpxchg the wmode field from 0 to
_QW_WAITING so that concurrent lockers also take the slowpath and queue
on the spinlock accordingly, allowing the lockers to drain.Unfortunately, this isn't fair, because a fastpath writer that comes in
after the lock is made available but before the _QW_WAITING flag is set
can effectively jump the queue. If there is a steady stream of prospective
writers, then the waiter will be held off indefinitely.This patch restores fairness by separating _QW_WAITING and _QW_LOCKED
into two distinct fields: _QW_LOCKED continues to occupy the bottom byte
of the lockword so that it can be cleared unconditionally when unlocking,
but _QW_WAITING now occupies what used to be the bottom bit of the reader
count. This then forces the slow-path for concurrent lockers.Tested-by: Waiman Long
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton
Tested-by: Adam Wallis
Tested-by: Jan Glauber
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Boqun Feng
Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-6-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
There's no good reason to keep the internal structure of struct qrwlock
hidden from qrwlock.h, particularly as it's actually needed for unlock
and ends up being abstracted independently behind the __qrwlock_write_byte()
function.Stop pretending we can hide this stuff, and move the __qrwlock definition
into qrwlock, removing the __qrwlock_write_byte() nastiness and using the
same struct definition everywhere instead.Signed-off-by: Will Deacon
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Boqun Feng
Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Waiman Long
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
18 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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... trivial, but reads a little nicer when we name our
actual primitive 'lock'.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Waiman Long
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442216244-4409-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
06 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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This rwlock uses the arch_spin_lock_t as a waitqueue, and assuming the
arch_spin_lock_t is a fair lock (ticket,mcs etc..) the resulting
rwlock is a fair lock.It fits in the same 8 bytes as the regular rwlock_t by folding the
reader and writer count into a single integer, using the remaining 4
bytes for the arch_spinlock_t.Architectures that can single-copy adress bytes can optimize
queue_write_unlock() with a 0 write to the LSB (the write count).Performance as measured by Davidlohr Bueso (rwlock_t -> qrwlock_t):
+--------------+-------------+---------------+
| Workload | #users | delta |
+--------------+-------------+---------------+
| alltests | > 1400 | -4.83% |
| custom | 0-100,> 100 | +1.43%,-1.57% |
| high_systime | > 1000 | -2.61 |
| shared | all | +0.32 |
+--------------+-------------+---------------+http://www.stgolabs.net/qrwlock-stuff/aim7-results-vs-rwsem_optsin/
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long
[peterz: near complete rewrite]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: "Paul E.McKenney"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gac1nnl3wvs2ij87zv2xkdzq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
