Skip to content
Commit a31a369b authored by Michel Lespinasse's avatar Michel Lespinasse Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

x86 rwsem: avoid taking slow path when stealing write lock



modify __down_write[_nested] and __down_write_trylock to grab the write
lock whenever the active count is 0, even if there are queued waiters
(they must be writers pending wakeup, since the active count is 0).

Note that this is an optimization only; architectures without this
optimization will still work fine:

- __down_write() would take the slow path which would take the wait_lock
  and then try stealing the lock (as in the spinlocked rwsem implementation)

- __down_write_trylock() would fail, but callers must be ready to deal
  with that - since there are some writers pending wakeup, they could
  have raced with us and obtained the lock before we steal it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 25c39325
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment