This patch makes the necessary changes at the x86 architecture specific
layer to enable the presence of the CONFIG_QUEUE_RWLOCK kernel option
to replace the read/write lock by the queue read/write lock.
It also enables the CONFIG_QUEUE_RWLOCK option by default for x86 which
will force the use of queue read/write lock. That will greatly improve
the fairness of read/write lock and eliminate live-lock situation
where one task may not get the lock for an indefinite period of time.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <waiman.l...@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index e0acf82..3c6094b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ config X86
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64
select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
+ select ARCH_USE_QUEUE_RWLOCK
select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index bf156de..8fb88c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t
*lock)
cpu_relax();
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_QUEUE_RWLOCK
/*
* Read-write spinlocks, allowing multiple readers
* but only one writer.
@@ -270,6 +271,7 @@ static inline void arch_write_unlock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX WRITE_LOCK_ADD(%1) "%0"
: "+m" (rw->write) : "i" (RW_LOCK_BIAS) : "memory");
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_QUEUE_RWLOCK */
#define arch_read_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_read_lock(lock)
#define arch_write_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_write_lock(lock)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
index 4f1bea1..a585635 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ typedef struct arch_spinlock {
#define __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED { { 0 } }
+#ifdef CONFIG_QUEUE_RWLOCK
+#include <asm-generic/qrwlock.h>
+#else
#include <asm/rwlock.h>
+#endif
#endif /* _ASM_X86_SPINLOCK_TYPES_H */
--
1.7.1
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