linux-stable/kernel/locking
Waiman Long 990fa7384a locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
An RT task can do optimistic spinning only if the lock holder is
actually running. If the state of the lock holder isn't known, there
is a possibility that high priority of the RT task may block forward
progress of the lock holder if it happens to reside on the same CPU.
This will lead to deadlock. So we have to make sure that an RT task
will not spin on a reader-owned rwsem.

When the owner is temporarily set to NULL, there are two cases
where we may want to continue spinning:

 1) The lock owner is in the process of releasing the lock, sem->owner
    is cleared but the lock has not been released yet.

 2) The lock was free and owner cleared, but another task just comes
    in and acquire the lock before we try to get it. The new owner may
    be a spinnable writer.

So an RT task is now made to retry one more time to see if it can
acquire the lock or continue spinning on the new owning writer.

When testing on a 8-socket IvyBridge-EX system, the one additional retry
seems to improve locking performance of RT write locking threads under
heavy contentions. The table below shows the locking rates (in kops/s)
with various write locking threads before and after the patch.

    Locking threads     Pre-patch     Post-patch
    ---------------     ---------     -----------
            4             2,753          2,608
            8             2,529          2,520
           16             1,727          1,918
           32             1,263          1,956
           64               889          1,343

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-10-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-06-17 12:28:01 +02:00
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lock_events.c locking/lock_events: Don't show pvqspinlock events on bare metal 2019-04-10 10:56:05 +02:00
lock_events.h locking/lock_events: Use raw_cpu_{add,inc}() for stats 2019-06-03 12:32:56 +02:00
lock_events_list.h locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation 2019-06-17 12:27:59 +02:00
lockdep.c locking/lockdep: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() 2019-06-17 12:09:37 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h locking/lockdep: Test all incompatible scenarios at once in check_irq_usage() 2019-04-29 08:29:20 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c locking/lockdep: Introduce lockdep_next_lockchain() and lock_chain_count() 2019-02-28 07:55:44 +01:00
lockdep_states.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
locktorture.c locktorture: NULL cxt.lwsa and cxt.lrsa to allow bad-arg detection 2019-03-26 14:42:53 -07:00
Makefile locking/rwsem: Merge rwsem.h and rwsem-xadd.c into rwsem.c 2019-06-17 12:27:57 +02:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking/mcs: Use smp_cond_load_acquire() in MCS spin loop 2018-04-27 09:48:49 +02:00
mutex-debug.c locking/mutex: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep 2018-11-12 09:06:22 -08:00
mutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mutex.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
mutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
osq_lock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-rwsem.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
qrwlock.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
qspinlock.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/qspinlock_stat: Introduce generic lockevent_*() counting APIs 2019-04-10 10:56:03 +02:00
qspinlock_stat.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
rtmutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex_common.h locking/rtmutex: Handle non enqueued waiters gracefully in remove_waiter() 2018-03-28 23:01:30 +02:00
rwsem.c locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner 2019-06-17 12:28:01 +02:00
rwsem.h locking/rwsem: Merge rwsem.h and rwsem-xadd.c into rwsem.c 2019-06-17 12:27:57 +02:00
semaphore.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 436 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
spinlock.c asm-generic/mmiowb: Add generic implementation of mmiowb() tracking 2019-04-08 11:59:39 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c mmiowb: Hook up mmiowb helpers to spinlocks and generic I/O accessors 2019-04-08 11:59:47 +01:00
test-ww_mutex.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 9 2019-05-21 11:28:40 +02:00