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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-08-23 13:36:04 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-25 11:31:50 +0200
commit3ca0ff571b092ee4d807f1168caa428d95b0173b (patch)
treebde73cbec0c0fb44da58291546da58830384fb14 /include/linux/mutex.h
parent3ab7c086d5ec72585ef0158dbc265cb03ddc682a (diff)
locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner
The current mutex implementation has an atomic lock word and a non-atomic owner field. This disparity leads to a number of issues with the current mutex code as it means that we can have a locked mutex without an explicit owner (because the owner field has not been set, or already cleared). This leads to a number of weird corner cases, esp. between the optimistic spinning and debug code. Where the optimistic spinning code needs the owner field updated inside the lock region, the debug code is more relaxed because the whole lock is serialized by the wait_lock. Also, the spinning code itself has a few corner cases where we need to deal with a held lock without an owner field. Furthermore, it becomes even more of a problem when trying to fix starvation cases in the current code. We end up stacking special case on special case. To solve this rework the basic mutex implementation to be a single atomic word that contains the owner and uses the low bits for extra state. This matches how PI futexes and rt_mutex already work. By having the owner an integral part of the lock state a lot of the problems dissapear and we get a better option to deal with starvation cases, direct owner handoff. Changing the basic mutex does however invalidate all the arch specific mutex code; this patch leaves that unused in-place, a later patch will remove that. Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mutex.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mutex.h46
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
index 2cb7531e7d7a..4d3bccabbea5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mutex.h
+++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/osq_lock.h>
+#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
/*
* Simple, straightforward mutexes with strict semantics:
@@ -48,16 +49,12 @@
* locks and tasks (and only those tasks)
*/
struct mutex {
- /* 1: unlocked, 0: locked, negative: locked, possible waiters */
- atomic_t count;
+ atomic_long_t owner;
spinlock_t wait_lock;
- struct list_head wait_list;
-#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) || defined(CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER)
- struct task_struct *owner;
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* Spinner MCS lock */
#endif
+ struct list_head wait_list;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
void *magic;
#endif
@@ -66,6 +63,11 @@ struct mutex {
#endif
};
+static inline struct task_struct *__mutex_owner(struct mutex *lock)
+{
+ return (struct task_struct *)(atomic_long_read(&lock->owner) & ~0x03);
+}
+
/*
* This is the control structure for tasks blocked on mutex,
* which resides on the blocked task's kernel stack:
@@ -79,9 +81,20 @@ struct mutex_waiter {
};
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
-# include <linux/mutex-debug.h>
+
+#define __DEBUG_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \
+ , .magic = &lockname
+
+extern void mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock);
+
#else
+
# define __DEBUG_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname)
+
+static inline void mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock) {}
+
+#endif
+
/**
* mutex_init - initialize the mutex
* @mutex: the mutex to be initialized
@@ -90,14 +103,12 @@ struct mutex_waiter {
*
* It is not allowed to initialize an already locked mutex.
*/
-# define mutex_init(mutex) \
-do { \
- static struct lock_class_key __key; \
- \
- __mutex_init((mutex), #mutex, &__key); \
+#define mutex_init(mutex) \
+do { \
+ static struct lock_class_key __key; \
+ \
+ __mutex_init((mutex), #mutex, &__key); \
} while (0)
-static inline void mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock) {}
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# define __DEP_MAP_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \
@@ -107,7 +118,7 @@ static inline void mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock) {}
#endif
#define __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \
- { .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1) \
+ { .owner = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0) \
, .wait_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lockname.wait_lock) \
, .wait_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(lockname.wait_list) \
__DEBUG_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \
@@ -127,7 +138,10 @@ extern void __mutex_init(struct mutex *lock, const char *name,
*/
static inline int mutex_is_locked(struct mutex *lock)
{
- return atomic_read(&lock->count) != 1;
+ /*
+ * XXX think about spin_is_locked
+ */
+ return __mutex_owner(lock) != NULL;
}
/*