ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+

Commit Message

Will Deacon Aug. 24, 2012, 12:36 p.m. UTC

The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
protect any accesses performed during the critical section.

Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
code as this produces shorter critical sections).

This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.

Cc: <[e-mail]> : 0bce9c46: mutex: Place lock in contended...
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[e-mail]>
Reported-by: Shan Kang <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[e-mail]>
---

Greg, Ben: Here's a re-send of this mutex patch now that the dependency
has been merged into mainline. Although that patch also has a CC: stable,
I added an explicit dependency here too.

Cheers,

Will

 arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h |  119 ++----------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)

Comments

Ben Hutchings Sept. 9, 2012, 4:51 p.m. UTC | #1

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 13:36 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
> severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
> protect any accesses performed during the critical section.
> 
> Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
> code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
> was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
> reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
> code as this produces shorter critical sections).
> 
> This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
> ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
> has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.
> 
> Cc: <[e-mail]> : 0bce9c46: mutex: Place lock in contended...
> Cc: <[e-mail]>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[e-mail]>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[e-mail]>
> Reported-by: Shan Kang <[e-mail]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[e-mail]>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <[e-mail]>
> ---
> 
> Greg, Ben: Here's a re-send of this mutex patch now that the dependency
> has been merged into mainline. Although that patch also has a CC: stable,
> I added an explicit dependency here too.
[...]

I thought this had been deferred, but it actually already went into
3.2.27.  The fix you refer to is queued up for the next 3.2 update.

Ben.

Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h
index 93226cf..b1479fd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h
@@ -7,121 +7,10 @@ 
  */
 #ifndef _ASM_MUTEX_H
 #define _ASM_MUTEX_H
-
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
-/* On pre-ARMv6 hardware the swp based implementation is the most efficient. */
-# include <asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h>
-#else
-
 /*
- * Attempting to lock a mutex on ARMv6+ can be done with a bastardized
- * atomic decrement (it is not a reliable atomic decrement but it satisfies
- * the defined semantics for our purpose, while being smaller and faster
- * than a real atomic decrement or atomic swap.  The idea is to attempt
- * decrementing the lock value only once.  If once decremented it isn't zero,
- * or if its store-back fails due to a dispute on the exclusive store, we
- * simply bail out immediately through the slow path where the lock will be
- * reattempted until it succeeds.
+ * On pre-ARMv6 hardware this results in a swp-based implementation,
+ * which is the most efficient. For ARMv6+, we emit a pair of exclusive
+ * accesses instead.
  */
-static inline void
-__mutex_fastpath_lock(atomic_t *count, void (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
-{
-	int __ex_flag, __res;
-
-	__asm__ (
-
-		"ldrex	%0, [%2]	\n\t"
-		"sub	%0, %0, #1	\n\t"
-		"strex	%1, %0, [%2]	"
-
-		: "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
-		: "r" (&(count)->counter)
-		: "cc","memory" );
-
-	__res |= __ex_flag;
-	if (unlikely(__res != 0))
-		fail_fn(count);
-}
-
-static inline int
-__mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(atomic_t *count, int (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
-{
-	int __ex_flag, __res;
-
-	__asm__ (
-
-		"ldrex	%0, [%2]	\n\t"
-		"sub	%0, %0, #1	\n\t"
-		"strex	%1, %0, [%2]	"
-
-		: "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
-		: "r" (&(count)->counter)
-		: "cc","memory" );
-
-	__res |= __ex_flag;
-	if (unlikely(__res != 0))
-		__res = fail_fn(count);
-	return __res;
-}
-
-/*
- * Same trick is used for the unlock fast path. However the original value,
- * rather than the result, is used to test for success in order to have
- * better generated assembly.
- */
-static inline void
-__mutex_fastpath_unlock(atomic_t *count, void (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
-{
-	int __ex_flag, __res, __orig;
-
-	__asm__ (
-
-		"ldrex	%0, [%3]	\n\t"
-		"add	%1, %0, #1	\n\t"
-		"strex	%2, %1, [%3]	"
-
-		: "=&r" (__orig), "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
-		: "r" (&(count)->counter)
-		: "cc","memory" );
-
-	__orig |= __ex_flag;
-	if (unlikely(__orig != 0))
-		fail_fn(count);
-}
-
-/*
- * If the unlock was done on a contended lock, or if the unlock simply fails
- * then the mutex remains locked.
- */
-#define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()	1
-
-/*
- * For __mutex_fastpath_trylock we use another construct which could be
- * described as a "single value cmpxchg".
- *
- * This provides the needed trylock semantics like cmpxchg would, but it is
- * lighter and less generic than a true cmpxchg implementation.
- */
-static inline int
-__mutex_fastpath_trylock(atomic_t *count, int (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
-{
-	int __ex_flag, __res, __orig;
-
-	__asm__ (
-
-		"1: ldrex	%0, [%3]	\n\t"
-		"subs		%1, %0, #1	\n\t"
-		"strexeq	%2, %1, [%3]	\n\t"
-		"movlt		%0, #0		\n\t"
-		"cmpeq		%2, #0		\n\t"
-		"bgt		1b		"
-
-		: "=&r" (__orig), "=&r" (__res), "=&r" (__ex_flag)
-		: "r" (&count->counter)
-		: "cc", "memory" );
-
-	return __orig;
-}
-
-#endif
+#include <asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h>
 #endif