The wait_lock in a rwsem is always acquired with IRQ disabled. For the
rwsem-xadd.c implementation, no other lock will be called while holding
the wait_lock. So it satisfies the condition of being a terminal lock.
By marking it as terminal, the lockdep overhead will be reduced.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/rwsem.h | 11 ++++++++++-
kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h
index 67dbb57..a2a2385 100644
--- a/include/linux/rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h
@@ -77,16 +77,25 @@ static inline int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
# define __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname)
#endif
+/*
+ * The wait_lock is marked as a terminal lock to reduce lockdep overhead
+ * when the rwsem-xadd.c is used. This is implied when
+ * CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER is true. The rwsem-spinlock.c implementation
+ * allows calling wake_up_process() while holding the wait_lock. So it
+ * can't be marked as terminal in this case.
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
#define __RWSEM_OPT_INIT(lockname) , .osq = OSQ_LOCK_UNLOCKED, .owner = NULL
+#define __RWSEM_WAIT_LOCK_INIT(x) __RAW_TERMINAL_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(x)
#else
#define __RWSEM_OPT_INIT(lockname)
+#define __RWSEM_WAIT_LOCK_INIT(x) __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(x)
#endif
#define __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name) \
{ __RWSEM_INIT_COUNT(name), \
.wait_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).wait_list), \
- .wait_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.wait_lock) \
+ .wait_lock = __RWSEM_WAIT_LOCK_INIT(name.wait_lock) \
__RWSEM_OPT_INIT(name) \
__RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(name) }
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
index 09b1800..3dbe593 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ void __init_rwsem(struct rw_semaphore *sem, const char *name,
#endif
atomic_long_set(&sem->count, RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE);
raw_spin_lock_init(&sem->wait_lock);
+ lockdep_set_terminal_class(&sem->wait_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sem->wait_list);
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
sem->owner = NULL;
--
1.8.3.1
