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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rwsem: do optimistic spinning for writer lock
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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:00:06 -0700
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>, Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 09:37 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 01:17:45PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> > On second thought, I agree with you.  I should change this to
> > something like
> > 
> > 	int retval = true;
> > 	task_struct *sem_owner;
> > 
> > 	/* Spin only if active writer running */
> > 	if (!sem->owner)
> > 		return false;
> > 
> > 	rcu_read_lock();
> > 	sem_owner = sem->owner;
> 
> That should be: sem_owner = ACCESS_ONCE(sem->owner); to make sure the
> compiler doesn't try and be clever and rereads.

Thanks.  Will incorporate this in next version of the patch.

Tim


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