From patchwork Fri Aug 24 10:47:40 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Precise, SRU, 1/1] mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure From: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 179824 Message-Id: <1345805260-15640-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> To: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:47:40 +0100 From: Will Deacon BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041114 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 Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6e9lrw2avczr0617fzl5vqb8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner (cherry picked from commit 0bce9c46bf3b15f485d82d7e81dabed6ebcc24b1) Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h b/include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h index 580a6d3..c04e0db 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h @@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ static inline void __mutex_fastpath_lock(atomic_t *count, void (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *)) { if (unlikely(atomic_xchg(count, 0) != 1)) - fail_fn(count); + /* + * We failed to acquire the lock, so mark it contended + * to ensure that any waiting tasks are woken up by the + * unlock slow path. + */ + if (likely(atomic_xchg(count, -1) != 1)) + fail_fn(count); } /** @@ -43,7 +49,8 @@ static inline int __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(atomic_t *count, int (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *)) { if (unlikely(atomic_xchg(count, 0) != 1)) - return fail_fn(count); + if (likely(atomic_xchg(count, -1) != 1)) + return fail_fn(count); return 0; }