locking/qspinlock: Clarify xchg_tail() ordering
While going over the code I noticed that xchg_tail() is a RELEASE but
had no obvious pairing commented.
It pairs with a somewhat unique address dependency through
decode_tail().
So the store-release of xchg_tail() is paired by the address
dependency of the load of xchg_tail followed by the dereference from
the pointer computed from that load.
The @old -> @prev transformation itself is pure, and therefore does
not depend on external state, so that is immaterial wrt. ordering.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 5fc8c31..ee7deb0 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
* therefore increment the cpu number by one.
*/
-static inline u32 encode_tail(int cpu, int idx)
+static inline __pure u32 encode_tail(int cpu, int idx)
{
u32 tail;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
return tail;
}
-static inline struct mcs_spinlock *decode_tail(u32 tail)
+static inline __pure struct mcs_spinlock *decode_tail(u32 tail)
{
int cpu = (tail >> _Q_TAIL_CPU_OFFSET) - 1;
int idx = (tail & _Q_TAIL_IDX_MASK) >> _Q_TAIL_IDX_OFFSET;
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@
* pending stuff.
*
* p,*,* -> n,*,*
+ *
+ * RELEASE, such that the stores to @node must be complete.
*/
old = xchg_tail(lock, tail);
next = NULL;
@@ -465,6 +467,15 @@
*/
if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
prev = decode_tail(old);
+ /*
+ * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates,
+ * through decode_tail(), a pointer.
+ *
+ * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail()
+ * such that the access to @prev must happen after.
+ */
+ smp_read_barrier_depends();
+
WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);
pv_wait_node(node, prev);