x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()

Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read:

- Atomic update can be skipped if the "last_value" is already
  equal to "ret".

- The detection of atomic update failure is not correct. The value,
  returned by atomic64_cmpxchg should be compared to the old value
  from the location to be updated. If these two are the same, then
  atomic update succeeded and "last_value" location is updated to
  "ret" in an atomic way. Otherwise, the atomic update failed and
  it should be retried with the value from "last_value" - exactly
  what atomic64_try_cmpxchg does in a correct and more optimal way.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118202330.3740-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126151323.643408110@infradead.org

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
index eda37df..5a2a517 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
@@ -102,10 +102,9 @@ u64 pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src)
         */
        last = atomic64_read(&last_value);
        do {
-               if (ret < last)
+               if (ret <= last)
                        return last;
-               last = atomic64_cmpxchg(&last_value, last, ret);
-       } while (unlikely(last != ret));
+       } while (!atomic64_try_cmpxchg(&last_value, &last, ret));
 
        return ret;
 }