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* [PATCH v3 1/3] seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin
@ 2024-11-22 17:44 Suren Baghdasaryan
  2024-11-22 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount Suren Baghdasaryan
  2024-11-22 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} Suren Baghdasaryan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Suren Baghdasaryan @ 2024-11-22 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: peterz, andrii, jannh, Liam.Howlett, lorenzo.stoakes, vbabka,
	mhocko, shakeel.butt, hannes, david, willy, brauner, oleg, arnd,
	richard.weiyang, zhangpeng.00, linmiaohe, viro, hca, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, surenb, Liam R. Howlett

Add raw_seqcount_try_begin() to opens a read critical section of the given
seqcount_t if the counter is even. This enables eliding the critical
section entirely if the counter is odd, instead of doing the speculation
knowing it will fail.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
---
Applies over Linus' ToT

Changes since v2 [1]
- Added SOB, per David Hildenbrand
- Added SOB, per Liam Howlett

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241121162826.987947-1-surenb@google.com/

 include/linux/seqlock.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 5298765d6ca4..22c2c48b4265 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -318,6 +318,28 @@ SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME(mutex,        struct mutex,    true,     mutex)
 	__seq;								\
 })
 
+/**
+ * raw_seqcount_try_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section
+ *                            w/o lockdep and w/o counter stabilization
+ * @s: Pointer to seqcount_t or any of the seqcount_LOCKNAME_t variants
+ *
+ * Similar to raw_seqcount_begin(), except it enables eliding the critical
+ * section entirely if odd, instead of doing the speculation knowing it will
+ * fail.
+ *
+ * Useful when counter stabilization is more or less equivalent to taking
+ * the lock and there is a slowpath that does that.
+ *
+ * If true, start will be set to the (even) sequence count read.
+ *
+ * Return: true when a read critical section is started.
+ */
+#define raw_seqcount_try_begin(s, start)				\
+({									\
+	start = raw_read_seqcount(s);					\
+	!(start & 1);							\
+})
+
 /**
  * raw_seqcount_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section w/o
  *                        lockdep and w/o counter stabilization

base-commit: 28eb75e178d389d325f1666e422bc13bbbb9804c
-- 
2.47.0.371.ga323438b13-goog



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2024-11-22 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-25  0:58   ` Wei Yang
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2024-11-25 16:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
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