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2014-10-13Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main updates in this cycle were: - mutex MCS refactoring finishing touches: improve comments, refactor and clean up code, reduce debug data structure footprint, etc. - qrwlock finishing touches: remove old code, self-test updates. - small rwsem optimization - various smaller fixes/cleanups" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/lockdep: Revert qrwlock recusive stuff locking/rwsem: Avoid double checking before try acquiring write lock locking/rwsem: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL() lines to follow function definition locking/rwlock, x86: Delete unused asm/rwlock.h and rwlock.S locking/rwlock, x86: Clean up asm/spinlock*.h to remove old rwlock code locking/semaphore: Resolve some shadow warnings locking/selftest: Support queued rwlock locking/lockdep: Restrict the use of recursive read_lock() with qrwlock locking/spinlocks: Always evaluate the second argument of spin_lock_nested() locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/ locking/mutexes: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate locking/mutexes: Refactor optimistic spinning code locking/mcs: Remove obsolete comment locking/mutexes: Document quick lock release when unlocking locking/mutexes: Standardize arguments in lock/unlock slowpaths locking: Remove deprecated smp_mb__() barriers
2014-09-30locktorture: Support rwlocksDavidlohr Bueso
Add a "rw_lock" torture test to stress kernel rwlocks and their irq variant. Reader critical regions are 5x longer than writers. As such a similar ratio of lock acquisitions is seen in the statistics. In the case of massive contention, both hold the lock for 1/10 of a second. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16locktorture: Support rwsemsDavidlohr Bueso
We can easily do so with our new reader lock support. Just an arbitrary design default: readers have higher (5x) critical region latencies than writers: 50 ms and 10 ms, respectively. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locksDavidlohr Bueso
Most of it is based on what we already have for writers. This allows readers to be very independent (and thus configurable), enabling future module parameters to control things such as rw distribution. Furthermore, readers have their own delaying function, allowing us to test different rw critical region latencies, and stress locking internals. Similarly, statistics, for now will only serve for the number of lock acquisitions -- as opposed to writers, readers have no failure detection. In addition, introduce a new nreaders_stress module parameter. The default number of readers will be the same number of writers threads. Writer threads are interleaved with readers. Documentation is updated, respectively. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16locktorture: Support mutexesDavidlohr Bueso
Add a "mutex_lock" torture test. The main difference with the already existing spinlock tests is that the latency of the critical region is much larger. We randomly delay for (arbitrarily) either 500 ms or, otherwise, 25 ms. While this can considerably reduce the amount of writes compared to non blocking locks, if run long enough it can have the same torturous effect. Furthermore it is more representative of mutex hold times and can stress better things like thrashing. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16locktorture: Add documentationDavidlohr Bueso
Just like Documentation/RCU/torture.txt, begin a document for the locktorture module. This module is still pretty green, so I have just added some specific sections to the doc (general desc, params, usage, etc.). Further development should update the file. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> [ paulmck: Apply Randy Dunlap review comments. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-08-13locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantagesDavidlohr Bueso
Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning - an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-08-13locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/Davidlohr Bueso
Specifically: Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>