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mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:22:09 +0000 (15:22 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:46:54 +0000 (18:46 +0200)
commitd67b510675e6fd8dccc3b084a0d03f55deacf458
tree2378c052d6a19efaad21eabd58ccf8b8df489bde
parentbcd1111f7a8ea8e64355e372d4da37dabaf605b8
mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure

ARM recently moved to asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h for its mutex
implementation after the previous implementation was found to be missing
some crucial memory barriers. However, this has revealed some problems
running hackbench on SMP platforms due to the way in which the
MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER code operates.

The symptoms are that a bunch of hackbench tasks are left waiting on an
unlocked mutex and therefore never get woken up to claim it. This boils
down to the following sequence of events:

        Task A        Task B        Task C        Lock value
0                                                     1
1       lock()                                        0
2                     lock()                          0
3                     spin(A)                         0
4       unlock()                                      1
5                                   lock()            0
6                     cmpxchg(1,0)                    0
7                     contended()                    -1
8       lock()                                        0
9       spin(C)                                       0
10                                  unlock()          1
11      cmpxchg(1,0)                                  0
12      unlock()                                      1

At this point, the lock is unlocked, but Task B is in an uninterruptible
sleep with nobody to wake it up.

This patch fixes the problem by ensuring we put the lock into the
contended state if we fail to acquire it on the fastpath, ensuring that
any blocked waiters are woken up when the mutex is released.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6e9lrw2avczr0617fzl5vqb8@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h