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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-04-13 11:58:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-05-27 12:59:58 -0700 |
| commit | 6c7ed42c81a2d9a7e0646240599552040375fa02 (patch) | |
| tree | 46e7968fe0752820a4a6af624ebc169749738ae0 /kernel/rcu | |
| parent | 61d49d2f9888ace06ab127cf6f063bed7c3b2e53 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6c7ed42c81a2d9a7e0646240599552040375fa02.tar.gz lwn-6c7ed42c81a2d9a7e0646240599552040375fa02.zip | |
rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
The rcutorture.c file uses several explicit memory barriers that can
easily be converted to smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire(), which
improves maintainability and also improves performance a bit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c index 7294d605c481..90ff8dfc51e5 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c @@ -672,8 +672,8 @@ static void rcu_torture_boost_cb(struct rcu_head *head) struct rcu_boost_inflight *rbip = container_of(head, struct rcu_boost_inflight, rcu); - smp_mb(); /* Ensure RCU-core accesses precede clearing ->inflight */ - rbip->inflight = 0; + /* Ensure RCU-core accesses precede clearing ->inflight */ + smp_store_release(&rbip->inflight, 0); } static int rcu_torture_boost(void *arg) @@ -710,9 +710,9 @@ static int rcu_torture_boost(void *arg) call_rcu_time = jiffies; while (ULONG_CMP_LT(jiffies, endtime)) { /* If we don't have a callback in flight, post one. */ - if (!rbi.inflight) { - smp_mb(); /* RCU core before ->inflight = 1. */ - rbi.inflight = 1; + if (!smp_load_acquire(&rbi.inflight)) { + /* RCU core before ->inflight = 1. */ + smp_store_release(&rbi.inflight, 1); call_rcu(&rbi.rcu, rcu_torture_boost_cb); if (jiffies - call_rcu_time > test_boost_duration * HZ - HZ / 2) { @@ -751,11 +751,10 @@ checkwait: stutter_wait("rcu_torture_boost"); } while (!torture_must_stop()); /* Clean up and exit. */ - while (!kthread_should_stop() || rbi.inflight) { + while (!kthread_should_stop() || smp_load_acquire(&rbi.inflight)) { torture_shutdown_absorb("rcu_torture_boost"); schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); } - smp_mb(); /* order accesses to ->inflight before stack-frame death. */ destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rbi.rcu); torture_kthread_stopping("rcu_torture_boost"); return 0; @@ -1413,12 +1412,15 @@ static int rcu_torture_barrier_cbs(void *arg) do { wait_event(barrier_cbs_wq[myid], (newphase = - READ_ONCE(barrier_phase)) != lastphase || + smp_load_acquire(&barrier_phase)) != lastphase || torture_must_stop()); lastphase = newphase; - smp_mb(); /* ensure barrier_phase load before ->call(). */ if (torture_must_stop()) break; + /* + * The above smp_load_acquire() ensures barrier_phase load + * is ordered before the folloiwng ->call(). + */ cur_ops->call(&rcu, rcu_torture_barrier_cbf); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&barrier_cbs_count)) wake_up(&barrier_wq); @@ -1439,8 +1441,8 @@ static int rcu_torture_barrier(void *arg) do { atomic_set(&barrier_cbs_invoked, 0); atomic_set(&barrier_cbs_count, n_barrier_cbs); - smp_mb(); /* Ensure barrier_phase after prior assignments. */ - barrier_phase = !barrier_phase; + /* Ensure barrier_phase ordered after prior assignments. */ + smp_store_release(&barrier_phase, !barrier_phase); for (i = 0; i < n_barrier_cbs; i++) wake_up(&barrier_cbs_wq[i]); wait_event(barrier_wq, |