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Will Deacon committed c61da58d8a9
locking/qspinlock: Kill cmpxchg() loop when claiming lock from head of queue When a queued locker reaches the head of the queue, it claims the lock by setting _Q_LOCKED_VAL in the lockword. If there isn't contention, it must also clear the tail as part of this operation so that subsequent lockers can avoid taking the slowpath altogether. Currently this is expressed as a cmpxchg() loop that practically only runs up to two iterations. This is confusing to the reader and unhelpful to the compiler. Rewrite the cmpxchg() loop without the loop, so that a failed cmpxchg() implies that there is contention and we just need to write to _Q_LOCKED_VAL without considering the rest of the lockword. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-7-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>