[PATCH 03/10] locking/qspinlock: Kill cmpxchg loop when claiming lock from head of queue

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> +
> +	/* In the PV case we might already have _Q_LOCKED_VAL set */
> +	if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) == tail) {
>  		/*
>  		 * The smp_cond_load_acquire() call above has provided the
> +		 * necessary acquire semantics required for locking.
>  		 */
>  		old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
>  		if (old == val)
> +			goto release; /* No contention */
>  	}

--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -464,8 +464,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qs
 		 * The smp_cond_load_acquire() call above has provided the
 		 * necessary acquire semantics required for locking.
 		 */
-		old = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
-		if (old == val)
+		if (atomic_try_cmpxchg_release(&lock->val, &val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
 			goto release; /* No contention */
 	}

Does that also work for you? It would generate slightly better code for
x86 (not that it would matter much on this path).