locking/spinlocks/mcs: Convert osq lock to atomic_t to reduce overhead

The cancellable MCS spinlock is currently used to queue threads that are
doing optimistic spinning. It uses per-cpu nodes, where a thread obtaining
the lock would access and queue the local node corresponding to the CPU that
it's running on. Currently, the cancellable MCS lock is implemented by using
pointers to these nodes.

In this patch, instead of operating on pointers to the per-cpu nodes, we
store the CPU numbers in which the per-cpu nodes correspond to in atomic_t.
A similar concept is used with the qspinlock.

By operating on the CPU # of the nodes using atomic_t instead of pointers
to those nodes, this can reduce the overhead of the cancellable MCS spinlock
by 32 bits (on 64 bit systems).

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405358872-3732-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
index 885f3f56a77..42aa9b9ecd5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mutex.h
+++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <linux/osq_lock.h>
 
 /*
  * Simple, straightforward mutexes with strict semantics:
@@ -46,7 +47,6 @@
  * - detects multi-task circular deadlocks and prints out all affected
  *   locks and tasks (and only those tasks)
  */
-struct optimistic_spin_node;
 struct mutex {
 	/* 1: unlocked, 0: locked, negative: locked, possible waiters */
 	atomic_t		count;
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct mutex {
 	struct task_struct	*owner;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
-	struct optimistic_spin_node	*osq;	/* Spinner MCS lock */
+	struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* Spinner MCS lock */
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
 	const char 		*name;
diff --git a/include/linux/osq_lock.h b/include/linux/osq_lock.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b001682bf7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/osq_lock.h
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#ifndef __LINUX_OSQ_LOCK_H
+#define __LINUX_OSQ_LOCK_H
+
+/*
+ * An MCS like lock especially tailored for optimistic spinning for sleeping
+ * lock implementations (mutex, rwsem, etc).
+ */
+
+#define OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL (0)
+
+struct optimistic_spin_queue {
+	/*
+	 * Stores an encoded value of the CPU # of the tail node in the queue.
+	 * If the queue is empty, then it's set to OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL.
+	 */
+	atomic_t tail;
+};
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h
index ba3f108ddea..9fdcdd03507 100644
--- a/include/linux/rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
-
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/osq_lock.h>
 
-struct optimistic_spin_node;
 struct rw_semaphore;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ struct rw_semaphore {
 	 * if the owner is running on the cpu.
 	 */
 	struct task_struct *owner;
-	struct optimistic_spin_node *osq; /* spinner MCS lock */
+	struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* spinner MCS lock */
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 	struct lockdep_map	dep_map;
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ static inline int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 	  __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.wait_lock),	\
 	  LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).wait_list),		\
 	  NULL, /* owner */				\
-	  NULL /* mcs lock */                           \
+	  { ATOMIC_INIT(OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL) } /* osq */   \
 	  __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(name) }
 #else
 #define __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name)			\