/* * MCS lock defines * * This file contains the main data structure and API definitions of MCS lock. * * The MCS lock (proposed by Mellor-Crummey and Scott) is a simple spin-lock * with the desirable properties of being fair, and with each cpu trying * to acquire the lock spinning on a local variable. * It avoids expensive cache bouncings that common test-and-set spin-lock * implementations incur. */ #ifndef __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H #define __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H struct mcs_spinlock { struct mcs_spinlock *next; int locked; /* 1 if lock acquired */ }; /* * Note: the smp_load_acquire/smp_store_release pair is not * sufficient to form a full memory barrier across * cpus for many architectures (except x86) for mcs_unlock and mcs_lock. * For applications that need a full barrier across multiple cpus * with mcs_unlock and mcs_lock pair, smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() should be * used after mcs_lock. */ static inline void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node) { struct mcs_spinlock *prev; /* Init node */ node->locked = 0; node->next = NULL; prev = xchg(lock, node); if (likely(prev == NULL)) { /* Lock acquired */ node->locked = 1; return; } ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node; /* * Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down. * Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that * ensures subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired. */ while (!(smp_load_acquire(&node->locked))) arch_mutex_cpu_relax(); } static inline void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node) { struct mcs_spinlock *next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next); if (likely(!next)) { /* * Release the lock by setting it to NULL */ if (cmpxchg(lock, node, NULL) == node) return; /* Wait until the next pointer is set */ while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next))) arch_mutex_cpu_relax(); } /* * Pass lock to next waiter. * smp_store_release() provides a memory barrier to ensure * all operations in the critical section has been completed * before unlocking. */ smp_store_release(&next->locked, 1); } #endif /* __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H */