4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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commit 59fb586b4a07b4e1a0ee577140ab4842ba451acd upstream.
The qspinlock locking slowpath utilises a "pending" bit as a simple form of an embedded test-and-set lock that can avoid the overhead of explicit queuing in cases where the lock is held but uncontended. This bit is managed using a cmpxchg() loop which tries to transition the uncontended lock word from (0,0,0) -> (0,0,1) or (0,0,1) -> (0,1,1).
Unfortunately, the cmpxchg() loop is unbounded and lockers can be starved indefinitely if the lock word is seen to oscillate between unlocked (0,0,0) and locked (0,0,1). This could happen if concurrent lockers are able to take the lock in the cmpxchg() loop without queuing and pass it around amongst themselves.
This patch fixes the problem by unconditionally setting _Q_PENDING_VAL using atomic_fetch_or, and then inspecting the old value to see whether we need to spin on the current lock owner, or whether we now effectively hold the lock. The tricky scenario is when concurrent lockers end up queuing on the lock and the lock becomes available, causing us to see a lockword of (n,0,0). With pending now set, simply queuing could lead to deadlock as the head of the queue may not have observed the pending flag being cleared. Conversely, if the head of the queue did observe pending being cleared, then it could transition the lock from (n,0,0) -> (0,0,1) meaning that any attempt to "undo" our setting of the pending bit could race with a concurrent locker trying to set it.
We handle this race by preserving the pending bit when taking the lock after reaching the head of the queue and leaving the tail entry intact if we saw pending set, because we know that the tail is going to be updated shortly.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Acked-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-6-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.c... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++------------ kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 5 -- 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index cc98050e8bec..e7ab99a1f438 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ static inline __pure struct mcs_spinlock *decode_tail(u32 tail) #define _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK (_Q_LOCKED_MASK | _Q_PENDING_MASK)
#if _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 +/** + * clear_pending - clear the pending bit. + * @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure + * + * *,1,* -> *,0,* + */ +static __always_inline void clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock) +{ + WRITE_ONCE(lock->pending, 0); +} + /** * clear_pending_set_locked - take ownership and clear the pending bit. * @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure @@ -161,6 +172,17 @@ static __always_inline u32 xchg_tail(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 tail)
#else /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */
+/** + * clear_pending - clear the pending bit. + * @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure + * + * *,1,* -> *,0,* + */ +static __always_inline void clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock) +{ + atomic_andnot(_Q_PENDING_VAL, &lock->val); +} + /** * clear_pending_set_locked - take ownership and clear the pending bit. * @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure @@ -382,7 +404,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(queued_spin_unlock_wait); void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) { struct mcs_spinlock *prev, *next, *node; - u32 new, old, tail; + u32 old, tail; int idx;
BUILD_BUG_ON(CONFIG_NR_CPUS >= (1U << _Q_TAIL_CPU_BITS)); @@ -405,59 +427,51 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) (VAL != _Q_PENDING_VAL) || !cnt--); }
+ /* + * If we observe any contention; queue. + */ + if (val & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK) + goto queue; + /* * trylock || pending * * 0,0,0 -> 0,0,1 ; trylock * 0,0,1 -> 0,1,1 ; pending */ - for (;;) { + val = atomic_fetch_or_acquire(_Q_PENDING_VAL, &lock->val); + if (!(val & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK)) { /* - * If we observe any contention; queue. + * We're pending, wait for the owner to go away. + * + * *,1,1 -> *,1,0 + * + * this wait loop must be a load-acquire such that we match the + * store-release that clears the locked bit and create lock + * sequentiality; this is because not all + * clear_pending_set_locked() implementations imply full + * barriers. */ - if (val & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK) - goto queue; - - new = _Q_LOCKED_VAL; - if (val == new) - new |= _Q_PENDING_VAL; + if (val & _Q_LOCKED_MASK) { + smp_cond_load_acquire(&lock->val.counter, + !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)); + }
/* - * Acquire semantic is required here as the function may - * return immediately if the lock was free. + * take ownership and clear the pending bit. + * + * *,1,0 -> *,0,1 */ - old = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, val, new); - if (old == val) - break; - - val = old; - } - - /* - * we won the trylock - */ - if (new == _Q_LOCKED_VAL) + clear_pending_set_locked(lock); return; + }
/* - * we're pending, wait for the owner to go away. - * - * *,1,1 -> *,1,0 - * - * this wait loop must be a load-acquire such that we match the - * store-release that clears the locked bit and create lock - * sequentiality; this is because not all clear_pending_set_locked() - * implementations imply full barriers. - */ - smp_cond_load_acquire(&lock->val.counter, !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)); - - /* - * take ownership and clear the pending bit. - * - * *,1,0 -> *,0,1 + * If pending was clear but there are waiters in the queue, then + * we need to undo our setting of pending before we queue ourselves. */ - clear_pending_set_locked(lock); - return; + if (!(val & _Q_PENDING_MASK)) + clear_pending(lock);
/* * End of pending bit optimistic spinning and beginning of MCS @@ -561,15 +575,15 @@ locked: * claim the lock: * * n,0,0 -> 0,0,1 : lock, uncontended - * *,0,0 -> *,0,1 : lock, contended + * *,*,0 -> *,*,1 : lock, contended * - * If the queue head is the only one in the queue (lock value == tail), - * clear the tail code and grab the lock. Otherwise, we only need - * to grab the lock. + * If the queue head is the only one in the queue (lock value == tail) + * and nobody is pending, clear the tail code and grab the lock. + * Otherwise, we only need to grab the lock. */ for (;;) { /* In the PV case we might already have _Q_LOCKED_VAL set */ - if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) != tail) { + if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) != tail || (val & _Q_PENDING_MASK)) { set_locked(lock); break; } diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h index 3e33336911ff..9c07c72fb10e 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h @@ -88,11 +88,6 @@ static __always_inline void set_pending(struct qspinlock *lock) WRITE_ONCE(lock->pending, 1); }
-static __always_inline void clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock) -{ - WRITE_ONCE(lock->pending, 0); -} - /* * The pending bit check in pv_queued_spin_steal_lock() isn't a memory * barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg() is used to acquire the lock