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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2016-01-24 18:23:43 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-29 10:02:42 +0100
commit1329ce6fbbe4536592dfcfc8d64d61bfeb598fe6 (patch)
tree9e62701e84453ac079b56e5a69861a7498c1182c /kernel/locking
parent32d62510f949d3c8e83b9b3b844a84446611661b (diff)
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locking/mutex: Allow next waiter lockless wakeup
Make use of wake-queues and enable the wakeup to occur after releasing the wait_lock. This is similar to what we do with rtmutex top waiter, slightly shortening the critical region and allow other waiters to acquire the wait_lock sooner. In low contention cases it can also help the recently woken waiter to find the wait_lock available (fastpath) when it continues execution. Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160125022343.GA3322@linux-uzut.site Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/mutex.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 0551c219c40e..e364b424b019 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ static inline void
__mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(struct mutex *lock, int nested)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ WAKE_Q(wake_q);
/*
* As a performance measurement, release the lock before doing other
@@ -743,11 +744,11 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(struct mutex *lock, int nested)
struct mutex_waiter, list);
debug_mutex_wake_waiter(lock, waiter);
-
- wake_up_process(waiter->task);
+ wake_q_add(&wake_q, waiter->task);
}
spin_unlock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);
+ wake_up_q(&wake_q);
}
/*