task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:13:59 +0000 (13:13 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:08:58 +0000 (10:08 -0700)
There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair.  This commit therefore replaces the spin_unlock_wait() call in
task_work_run() with a spin_lock_irq() and a spin_unlock_irq() aruond
the cmpxchg() dequeue loop.  This should be safe from a performance
perspective because ->pi_lock is local to the task and because calls to
the other side of the race, task_work_cancel(), should be rare.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/task_work.c

index d513051..836a72a 100644 (file)
@@ -96,20 +96,16 @@ void task_work_run(void)
                 * work->func() can do task_work_add(), do not set
                 * work_exited unless the list is empty.
                 */
+               raw_spin_lock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
                do {
                        work = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
                        head = !work && (task->flags & PF_EXITING) ?
                                &work_exited : NULL;
                } while (cmpxchg(&task->task_works, work, head) != work);
+               raw_spin_unlock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
 
                if (!work)
                        break;
-               /*
-                * Synchronize with task_work_cancel(). It can't remove
-                * the first entry == work, cmpxchg(task_works) should
-                * fail, but it can play with *work and other entries.
-                */
-               raw_spin_unlock_wait(&task->pi_lock);
 
                do {
                        next = work->next;