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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] locking/rwsem: Add a new RWSEM_WRITER_OWNED_NOSPIN flag
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
> There are use cases where a rwsem can be acquired by one task, but
> released by another task. In thess cases, it may not be appropriate
> for the lock waiters to spin on the task that acquires the lock.
> One example will be the filesystem freeze/thaw code.
>
> To handle such use cases, a new RWSEM_WRITER_OWNED_NOSPIN
> flag can now be set in the owner field of the rwsem by the new
> rwsem_set_writer_owned_nospin() function to indicate that the rwsem is
> writer owned, but optimistic spinning on the rwsem should be disabled.
>
> Later on, the new rwsem_set_writer_owned() function can be called to
> set the new owner, if it is known. This function should not be called
> without a prior rwsem_set_writer_owned_nospin() call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Makes sense to me. one nit.

>
> +static inline void __rwsem_set_writer_owned(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
> + struct task_struct *task)

rwsem_set_owner() doesn't pass in task argument and IMO
__rwsem_set_writer_owned() shouldn't either.

Thanks,
Amir.

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