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-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock.c29
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 87e9ce6a63c5..7868418ea586 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
* (C) Copyright 2013-2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
* (C) Copyright 2013-2014 Red Hat, Inc.
* (C) Copyright 2015 Intel Corp.
+ * (C) Copyright 2015 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Development LP
*
- * Authors: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
+ * Authors: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
*/
@@ -176,7 +177,12 @@ static __always_inline u32 xchg_tail(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 tail)
{
struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
- return (u32)xchg(&l->tail, tail >> _Q_TAIL_OFFSET) << _Q_TAIL_OFFSET;
+ /*
+ * Use release semantics to make sure that the MCS node is properly
+ * initialized before changing the tail code.
+ */
+ return (u32)xchg_release(&l->tail,
+ tail >> _Q_TAIL_OFFSET) << _Q_TAIL_OFFSET;
}
#else /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */
@@ -208,7 +214,11 @@ static __always_inline u32 xchg_tail(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 tail)
for (;;) {
new = (val & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK) | tail;
- old = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, val, new);
+ /*
+ * Use release semantics to make sure that the MCS node is
+ * properly initialized before changing the tail code.
+ */
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg_release(&lock->val, val, new);
if (old == val)
break;
@@ -319,7 +329,11 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
if (val == new)
new |= _Q_PENDING_VAL;
- old = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, val, new);
+ /*
+ * Acquire semantic is required here as the function may
+ * return immediately if the lock was free.
+ */
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, val, new);
if (old == val)
break;
@@ -426,7 +440,12 @@ queue:
set_locked(lock);
break;
}
- old = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
+ /*
+ * The smp_load_acquire() call above has provided the necessary
+ * acquire semantics required for locking. At most two
+ * iterations of this loop may be ran.
+ */
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
if (old == val)
goto release; /* No contention */