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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 4/4] qrwlock: Use the mcs_spinlock helper functions for MCS queuing
On 11/08/2013 04:21 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 12:17:20PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> There is a pending patch in the rwsem patch series that adds a generic
>> MCS locking helper functions to do MCS-style locking. This patch
>> will enable the queue rwlock to use that generic MCS lock/unlock
>> primitives for internal queuing. This patch should only be merged
>> after the merging of that generic MCS locking patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@hp.com>
> This one does might address at least some of the earlier memory-barrier
> issues, at least assuming that the MCS lock is properly memory-barriered.
>
> Then again, maybe not. Please see below.
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> /*
>> * At the head of the wait queue now, try to increment the reader
>> @@ -172,12 +103,36 @@ void queue_read_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
>> while (ACCESS_ONCE(lock->cnts.writer))
>> cpu_relax();
>> }
>> - rspin_until_writer_unlock(lock, 1);
>> - signal_next(lock,&node);
>> + /*
>> + * Increment reader count& wait until writer unlock
>> + */
>> + cnts.rw = xadd(&lock->cnts.rw, QRW_READER_BIAS);
>> + rspin_until_writer_unlock(lock, cnts);
>> + mcs_spin_unlock(&lock->waitq,&node);
> But mcs_spin_unlock() is only required to do a RELEASE barrier, which
> could still allow critical-section leakage.

Yes, that is a problem. I will try to add an ACQUIRE barrier in reading
the writer byte.

-Longman



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