[PATCH v3 1/7] asm-generic: ticket-lock: New generic ticket-based spinlock

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at rivosinc.com
Fri Apr 15 09:46:26 PDT 2022


On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:27:12 PDT (-0700), longman at redhat.com wrote:
> On 4/14/22 18:02, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
>>
>> This is a simple, fair spinlock.  Specifically it doesn't have all the
>> subtle memory model dependencies that qspinlock has, which makes it more
>> suitable for simple systems as it is more likely to be correct.  It is
>> implemented entirely in terms of standard atomics and thus works fine
>> without any arch-specific code.
>>
>> This replaces the existing asm-generic/spinlock.h, which just errored
>> out on SMP systems.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
>> ---
>>   include/asm-generic/spinlock.h       | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>   include/asm-generic/spinlock_types.h | 17 ++++++
>>   2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/spinlock_types.h
>>
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/spinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/spinlock.h
>> index adaf6acab172..ca829fcb9672 100644
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/spinlock.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/spinlock.h
>> @@ -1,12 +1,81 @@
>>   /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> -#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK_H
>> -#define __ASM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK_H
>> +
>>   /*
>> - * You need to implement asm/spinlock.h for SMP support. The generic
>> - * version does not handle SMP.
>> + * 'Generic' ticket-lock implementation.
>> + *
>> + * It relies on atomic_fetch_add() having well defined forward progress
>> + * guarantees under contention. If your architecture cannot provide this, stick
>> + * to a test-and-set lock.
>> + *
>> + * It also relies on atomic_fetch_add() being safe vs smp_store_release() on a
>> + * sub-word of the value. This is generally true for anything LL/SC although
>> + * you'd be hard pressed to find anything useful in architecture specifications
>> + * about this. If your architecture cannot do this you might be better off with
>> + * a test-and-set.
>> + *
>> + * It further assumes atomic_*_release() + atomic_*_acquire() is RCpc and hence
>> + * uses atomic_fetch_add() which is SC to create an RCsc lock.
>> + *
>> + * The implementation uses smp_cond_load_acquire() to spin, so if the
>> + * architecture has WFE like instructions to sleep instead of poll for word
>> + * modifications be sure to implement that (see ARM64 for example).
>> + *
>>    */
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>> -#error need an architecture specific asm/spinlock.h
>> -#endif
>>
>> -#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK_H */
>> +#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_TICKET_LOCK_H
>> +#define __ASM_GENERIC_TICKET_LOCK_H
> It is not conventional to use a macro name that is different from the
> header file name.

Sorry, that was just a mistake: I renamed the header, but forgot to 
rename the guard.  I'll likely send a v4 due to Boqun's questions, I'll 
fix this as well.

>> +
>> +#include <linux/atomic.h>
>> +#include <asm-generic/spinlock_types.h>
>> +
>> +static __always_inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> +	u32 val = atomic_fetch_add(1<<16, lock); /* SC, gives us RCsc */
>> +	u16 ticket = val >> 16;
>> +
>> +	if (ticket == (u16)val)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	atomic_cond_read_acquire(lock, ticket == (u16)VAL);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static __always_inline bool arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> +	u32 old = atomic_read(lock);
>> +
>> +	if ((old >> 16) != (old & 0xffff))
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	return atomic_try_cmpxchg(lock, &old, old + (1<<16)); /* SC, for RCsc */
>> +}
>> +
>> +static __always_inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> +	u16 *ptr = (u16 *)lock + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
>> +	u32 val = atomic_read(lock);
>> +
>> +	smp_store_release(ptr, (u16)val + 1);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static __always_inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> +	u32 val = atomic_read(lock);
>> +
>> +	return ((val >> 16) != (val & 0xffff));
>> +}
>> +
>> +static __always_inline int arch_spin_is_contended(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>> +{
>> +	u32 val = atomic_read(lock);
>> +
>> +	return (s16)((val >> 16) - (val & 0xffff)) > 1;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static __always_inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
>> +{
>> +	return !arch_spin_is_locked(&lock);
>> +}
>> +
>> +#include <asm/qrwlock.h>
>> +
>> +#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_TICKET_LOCK_H */
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/spinlock_types.h b/include/asm-generic/spinlock_types.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..e56ddb84d030
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/spinlock_types.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +
>> +#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_TICKET_LOCK_TYPES_H
>> +#define __ASM_GENERIC_TICKET_LOCK_TYPES_H
>> +
>> +#include <linux/types.h>
>> +typedef atomic_t arch_spinlock_t;
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * qrwlock_types depends on arch_spinlock_t, so we must typedef that before the
>> + * include.
>> + */
>> +#include <asm/qrwlock_types.h>
>
> I believe that if you guard the include line by
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCK
> #include <asm/qrwlock_types.h>
> #endif
>
> You may not need to do the hack in patch 5.

Yes, and we actually had it that way the first time around (specifically 
the ARCH_USES_QUEUED_RWLOCKS, but IIUC that's the same here).  The goal 
was to avoid adding the ifdef to the asm-generic code and instead keep 
the oddness in arch/riscv, it's only there for that one commit (and just 
so we can split out the spinlock conversion from the rwlock conversion, 
in case there's a bug and these need to be bisected later).

I'd also considered renaming qrwlock* to rwlock*, which would avoid the 
ifdef and make it a touch easier to override the rwlock implementation, 
but that didn't seem useful enough to warrant the diff.  These all seem 
a bit more coupled than I expected them to be (both 
{spin,qrw}lock{,_types}.h and the bits in linux/), I looked into 
cleaning that up a bit but it seemed like too much for just the one 
patch set.

> You can also directly use the <asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h> line without
> importing it to include/asm.

Yes, along with qrwlock.h (which has some unnecessary #include shims in 
a handful of arch dirs).  That's going to make the patch set bigger, 
I'll include it in the v4.

Thanks!



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