Commit-ID:  ce52a18db45842f5b992851a552bd7f6acb2241b
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/ce52a18db45842f5b992851a552bd7f6acb2241b
Author:     Waiman Long <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:19:18 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:46:03 +0200

locking/lockdep: Add a faster path in __lock_release()

When __lock_release() is called, the most likely unlock scenario is
on the innermost lock in the chain.  In this case, we can skip some of
the checks and provide a faster path to completion.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index a5d7db558928..511d30f88bce 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -3626,6 +3626,13 @@ __lock_release(struct lockdep_map *lock, int nested, 
unsigned long ip)
        curr->lockdep_depth = i;
        curr->curr_chain_key = hlock->prev_chain_key;
 
+       /*
+        * The most likely case is when the unlock is on the innermost
+        * lock. In this case, we are done!
+        */
+       if (i == depth-1)
+               return 1;
+
        if (reacquire_held_locks(curr, depth, i + 1))
                return 0;
 
@@ -3633,10 +3640,14 @@ __lock_release(struct lockdep_map *lock, int nested, 
unsigned long ip)
         * We had N bottles of beer on the wall, we drank one, but now
         * there's not N-1 bottles of beer left on the wall...
         */
-       if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(curr->lockdep_depth != depth - 1))
-               return 0;
+       DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(curr->lockdep_depth != depth-1);
 
-       return 1;
+       /*
+        * Since reacquire_held_locks() would have called check_chain_key()
+        * indirectly via __lock_acquire(), we don't need to do it again
+        * on return.
+        */
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static int __lock_is_held(const struct lockdep_map *lock, int read)

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