ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock: Reset retry delay when starting a new spin-wait cycle
authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:46:53 +0000 (18:46 +0300)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:56:35 +0000 (09:26 +0530)
The previous commit for delayed retry of SCOND needs some fine tuning
for spin locks.

The backoff from delayed retry in conjunction with spin looping of lock
itself can potentially cause the delay counter to reach high values.
So to provide fairness to any lock operation, after a lock "seems"
available (i.e. just before first SCOND try0, reset the delay counter
back to starting value of 1

Essentially reset delay to 1 for a new spin-wait-loop-acquire cycle.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h

index 2a84525b5aa446a1766d674c01d98ec3a4ac47cc..7071fc0da56ab1603a95465fe0fa8ef9ab58fe48 100644 (file)
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
        __asm__ __volatile__(
        "0:     mov     %[delay], 1             \n"
        "1:     llock   %[val], [%[slock]]      \n"
-       "       breq    %[val], %[LOCKED], 1b   \n"     /* spin while LOCKED */
+       "       breq    %[val], %[LOCKED], 0b   \n"     /* spin while LOCKED */
        "       scond   %[LOCKED], [%[slock]]   \n"     /* acquire */
        "       bz      4f                      \n"     /* done */
        "                                       \n"
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static inline void arch_read_lock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
        __asm__ __volatile__(
        "0:     mov     %[delay], 1             \n"
        "1:     llock   %[val], [%[rwlock]]     \n"
-       "       brls    %[val], %[WR_LOCKED], 1b\n"     /* <= 0: spin while write locked */
+       "       brls    %[val], %[WR_LOCKED], 0b\n"     /* <= 0: spin while write locked */
        "       sub     %[val], %[val], 1       \n"     /* reader lock */
        "       scond   %[val], [%[rwlock]]     \n"
        "       bz      4f                      \n"     /* done */
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static inline void arch_write_lock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
        __asm__ __volatile__(
        "0:     mov     %[delay], 1             \n"
        "1:     llock   %[val], [%[rwlock]]     \n"
-       "       brne    %[val], %[UNLOCKED], 1b \n"     /* while !UNLOCKED spin */
+       "       brne    %[val], %[UNLOCKED], 0b \n"     /* while !UNLOCKED spin */
        "       mov     %[val], %[WR_LOCKED]    \n"
        "       scond   %[val], [%[rwlock]]     \n"
        "       bz      4f                      \n"