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From:   Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: queued_write_lock_slowpath() cleanup
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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        Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>,
        Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:51:48 -0400
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On 4/26/21 2:50 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> Make the code more readable by replacing the atomic_cmpxchg_acquire()
> by an equivalent atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire() and change atomic_add()
> to atomic_or().
>
> For architectures that use qrwlock, I do not find one that has an
> atomic_add() defined but not an atomic_or().  I guess it should be fine
> by changing atomic_add() to atomic_or().
>
> Note that the previous use of atomic_add() isn't wrong as only one
> writer that is the wait_lock owner can set the waiting flag and the
> flag will be cleared later on when acquiring the write lock.
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> ---
>   kernel/locking/qrwlock.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> index b94f3831e963..ec36b73f4733 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
> @@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ void queued_write_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
>   	arch_spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
>   
>   	/* Try to acquire the lock directly if no reader is present */
> -	if (!atomic_read(&lock->cnts) &&
> -	    (atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->cnts, 0, _QW_LOCKED) == 0))
> +	if (!(cnts = atomic_read(&lock->cnts)) &&
> +	    atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->cnts, &cnts, _QW_LOCKED))
>   		goto unlock;
>   
>   	/* Set the waiting flag to notify readers that a writer is pending */
> -	atomic_add(_QW_WAITING, &lock->cnts);
> +	atomic_or(_QW_WAITING, &lock->cnts);
>   
>   	/* When no more readers or writers, set the locked flag */
>   	do {

Sorry, I missed the "v2" in the title.

Cheers,
Longman