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2013-11-27lockref: include mutex.h rather than reinvent arch_mutex_cpu_relaxWill Deacon
arch_mutex_cpu_relax is already conditionally defined in mutex.h, so simply include that header rather than replicate the code here. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15lockref: use BLOATED_SPINLOCKS to avoid explicit config dependenciesPeter Zijlstra
Avoid the fragile Kconfig construct guestimating spinlock_t sizes; use a friendly compile-time test to determine this. [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: drop CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-11Merge tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw Pull gfs2 updates from Steven Whitehouse: "The main feature of interest this time is quota updates. There are some clean ups and some patches to use the new generic lru list code. There is still plenty of scope for some further changes in due course - faster lookups of quota structures is very much on the todo list. Also, a start has been made towards the more tricky issue of using the generic lru code with glocks, but that will have to be completed in a subsequent merge window. The other, more minor feature, is that there have been a number of performance patches which relate to block allocation. In particular they will improve performance when the disk is nearly full" * tag 'gfs2-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: GFS2: Use generic list_lru for quota GFS2: Rename quota qd_lru_lock qd_lock GFS2: Use reflink for quota data cache GFS2: Use lockref for glocks GFS2: Protect quota sync generation GFS2: Inline qd_trylock into gfs2_quota_unlock GFS2: Make two similar quota code fragments into a function GFS2: Remove obsolete quota tunable GFS2: Move gfs2_icbit_munge into quota.c GFS2: Speed up starting point selection for block allocation GFS2: Add allocation parameters structure GFS2: Clean up reservation removal GFS2: fix dentry leaks GFS2: new function gfs2_rbm_incr GFS2: Introduce rbm field bii GFS2: Do not reset flags on active reservations GFS2: introduce bi_blocks for optimization GFS2: optimize rbm_from_block wrt bi_start GFS2: d_splice_alias() can't return error
2013-10-15GFS2: Use lockref for glocksSteven Whitehouse
Currently glocks have an atomic reference count and also a spinlock which covers various internal fields, such as the state. This intent of this patch is to replace the spinlock and the atomic reference count with a lockref structure. This contains a spinlock which we can continue to use as before, and a reference counter which is used in conjuction with the spinlock to replace the previous atomic counter. As a result of this there are some new rules for reference counting on glocks. We need to distinguish between reference count changes under gl_spin (which are now just increment or decrement of the new counter, provided the count cannot hit zero) and those which are outside of gl_spin, but which now take gl_spin internally. The conversion is relatively straight forward. There is probably some further clean up which can be done, but the priority at this stage is to make the change in as simple a manner as possible. A consequence of this change is that the reference count is being decoupled from the lru list processing. This should allow future adoption of the lru_list code with glocks in due course. The reason for using the "dead" state and not just relying on 0 being the "invalid state" is so that in due course 0 ref counts can be allowable. The intent is to eventually be able to remove the ref count changes which are currently hidden away in state_change(). Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-09-28lockref: use arch_mutex_cpu_relax() in CMPXCHG_LOOP()Heiko Carstens
Make use of arch_mutex_cpu_relax() so architectures can override the default cpu_relax() semantics. This is especially useful for s390, where cpu_relax() means that we yield() the current (virtual) cpu and therefore is very expensive, and would contradict the whole purpose of the lockless cmpxchg loop. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2013-09-27lockref: allow relaxed cmpxchg64 variant for lockless updatesWill Deacon
The 64-bit cmpxchg operation on the lockref is ordered by virtue of hazarding between the cmpxchg operation and the reference count manipulation. On weakly ordered memory architectures (such as ARM), it can be of great benefit to omit the barrier instructions where they are not needed. This patch moves the lockless lockref code over to a cmpxchg64_relaxed operation, which doesn't provide barrier semantics. If the operation isn't defined, we simply #define it as the usual 64-bit cmpxchg macro. Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-20lockref: use cmpxchg64 explicitly for lockless updatesWill Deacon
The cmpxchg() function tends not to support 64-bit arguments on 32-bit architectures. This could be either due to use of unsigned long arguments (like on ARM) or lack of instruction support (cmpxchgq on x86). However, these architectures may implement a specific cmpxchg64() function to provide 64-bit cmpxchg support instead. Since the lockref code requires a 64-bit cmpxchg and relies on the architecture selecting ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF, move to using cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg and allow 32-bit architectures to make use of the lockless lockref implementation. Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-07lockref: add ability to mark lockrefs "dead"Linus Torvalds
The only actual current lockref user (dcache) uses zero reference counts even for perfectly live dentries, because it's a cache: there may not be any users, but that doesn't mean that we want to throw away the dentry. At the same time, the dentry cache does have a notion of a truly "dead" dentry that we must not even increment the reference count of, because we have pruned it and it is not valid. Currently that distinction is not visible in the lockref itself, and the dentry cache validation uses "lockref_get_or_lock()" to either get a new reference to a dentry that already had existing references (and thus cannot be dead), or get the dentry lock so that we can then verify the dentry and increment the reference count under the lock if that verification was successful. That's all somewhat complicated. This adds the concept of being "dead" to the lockref itself, by simply using a count that is negative. This allows a usage scenario where we can increment the refcount of a dentry without having to validate it, and pushing the special "we killed it" case into the lockref code. The dentry code itself doesn't actually use this yet, and it's probably too late in the merge window to do that code (the dentry_kill() code with its "should I decrement the count" logic really is pretty complex code), but let's introduce the concept at the lockref level now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-07lockref: fix docbook argument namesLinus Torvalds
The code got rewritten, but the comments got copied as-is from older versions, and as a result the argument name in the comment didn't actually match the code any more. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-03lockref: Relax in cmpxchg loopLuck, Tony
While we are likley to succeed and break out of this loop, it isn't guaranteed. We should be power and thread friendly if we do have to go around for a second (or third, or more) attempt. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-02lockref: implement lockless reference count updates using cmpxchg()Linus Torvalds
Instead of taking the spinlock, the lockless versions atomically check that the lock is not taken, and do the reference count update using a cmpxchg() loop. This is semantically identical to doing the reference count update protected by the lock, but avoids the "wait for lock" contention that you get when accesses to the reference count are contended. Note that a "lockref" is absolutely _not_ equivalent to an atomic_t. Even when the lockref reference counts are updated atomically with cmpxchg, the fact that they also verify the state of the spinlock means that the lockless updates can never happen while somebody else holds the spinlock. So while "lockref_put_or_lock()" looks a lot like just another name for "atomic_dec_and_lock()", and both optimize to lockless updates, they are fundamentally different: the decrement done by atomic_dec_and_lock() is truly independent of any lock (as long as it doesn't decrement to zero), so a locked region can still see the count change. The lockref structure, in contrast, really is a *locked* reference count. If you hold the spinlock, the reference count will be stable and you can modify the reference count without using atomics, because even the lockless updates will see and respect the state of the lock. In order to enable the cmpxchg lockless code, the architecture needs to do three things: (1) Make sure that the "arch_spinlock_t" and an "unsigned int" can fit in an aligned u64, and have a "cmpxchg()" implementation that works on such a u64 data type. (2) define a helper function to test for a spinlock being unlocked ("arch_spin_value_unlocked()") (3) select the "ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF" config variable in its Kconfig file. This enables it for x86-64 (but not 32-bit, we'd need to make sure cmpxchg() turns into the proper cmpxchg8b in order to enable it for 32-bit mode). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-02lockref: uninline lockref helper functionsLinus Torvalds
They aren't very good to inline, since they already call external functions (the spinlock code), and we're going to create rather more complicated versions of them that can do the reference count updates locklessly. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>