From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 21:34:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86/ticketlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() livelock X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78bff1c8684f;p=linux-beck.git x86/ticketlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() livelock arch_spin_unlock_wait() looks very suboptimal, to the point I think this is just wrong and can lead to livelock: if the lock is heavily contended we can never see head == tail. But we do not need to wait for arch_spin_is_locked() == F. If it is locked we only need to wait until the current owner drops this lock. So we could simply spin until old_head != lock->tickets.head in this case, but .head can overflow and thus we can't check "unlocked" only once before the main loop. Also, the "unlocked" check can ignore TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG bit. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Paul E.McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Waiman Long Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141201213417.GA5842@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h index bf156ded74b5..abc34e95398d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h @@ -184,8 +184,20 @@ static __always_inline void arch_spin_lock_flags(arch_spinlock_t *lock, static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock) { - while (arch_spin_is_locked(lock)) + __ticket_t head = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets.head); + + for (;;) { + struct __raw_tickets tmp = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets); + /* + * We need to check "unlocked" in a loop, tmp.head == head + * can be false positive because of overflow. + */ + if (tmp.head == (tmp.tail & ~TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) || + tmp.head != head) + break; + cpu_relax(); + } } /*