[RFC PATCH 13/14] powerpc/qspinlock: trylock and initial lock attempt may steal

[Nicholas Piggin]

This gives trylock slightly more strength, and it also gives most
of the benefit of passing 'val' back through the slowpath without
the complexity.
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c         |  9 +++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h
index 44601b261e08..d3d2039237b2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <asm/qspinlock_types.h>
 
+#define _Q_SPIN_TRY_LOCK_STEAL 1
+
 static __always_inline int queued_spin_is_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
 {
 	return READ_ONCE(lock->val);
@@ -26,11 +28,12 @@ static __always_inline u32 queued_spin_get_locked_val(void)
 	return _Q_LOCKED_VAL | (smp_processor_id() << _Q_OWNER_CPU_OFFSET);
 }
 
-static __always_inline int queued_spin_trylock(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline int __queued_spin_trylock_nosteal(struct qspinlock *lock)
 {
 	u32 new = queued_spin_get_locked_val();
 	u32 prev;
 
+	/* Trylock succeeds only when unlocked and no queued nodes */
 	asm volatile(
 "1:	lwarx	%0,0,%1,%3	# queued_spin_trylock			\n"
 "	cmpwi	0,%0,0							\n"
@@ -49,6 +52,40 @@ static __always_inline int queued_spin_trylock(struct qspinlock *lock)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static __always_inline int __queued_spin_trylock_steal(struct qspinlock *lock)
+{
+	u32 new = queued_spin_get_locked_val();
+	u32 prev, tmp;
+
+	/* Trylock may get ahead of queued nodes if it finds unlocked */
+	asm volatile(
+"1:	lwarx	%0,0,%2,%5	# queued_spin_trylock			\n"
+"	andc.	%1,%0,%4						\n"
+"	bne-	2f							\n"
+"	and	%1,%0,%4						\n"
+"	or	%1,%1,%3						\n"
+"	stwcx.	%1,0,%2							\n"
+"	bne-	1b							\n"
+"\t"	PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER "						\n"
+"2:									\n"
+	: "=&r" (prev), "=&r" (tmp)
+	: "r" (&lock->val), "r" (new), "r" (_Q_TAIL_CPU_MASK),
+	  "i" (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) ? 1 : 0)
+	: "cr0", "memory");
+
+	if (likely(!(prev & ~_Q_TAIL_CPU_MASK)))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static __always_inline int queued_spin_trylock(struct qspinlock *lock)
+{
+	if (!_Q_SPIN_TRY_LOCK_STEAL)
+		return __queued_spin_trylock_nosteal(lock);
+	else
+		return __queued_spin_trylock_steal(lock);
+}
+
 void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock);
 
 static __always_inline void queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c
index ce0563c56915..d67b923e4f98 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ struct qnodes {
 
 /* Tuning parameters */
 static int STEAL_SPINS __read_mostly = (1<<5);
+#if _Q_SPIN_TRY_LOCK_STEAL == 1
+static const bool MAYBE_STEALERS = true;
+#else
 static bool MAYBE_STEALERS __read_mostly = true;
+#endif
 static int HEAD_SPINS __read_mostly = (1<<13);
 
 static bool pv_yield_owner __read_mostly = true;
@@ -505,6 +509,10 @@ void pv_spinlocks_init(void)
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 static int steal_spins_set(void *data, u64 val)
 {
+#if _Q_SPIN_TRY_LOCK_STEAL == 1
+	/* MAYBE_STEAL remains true */
+	STEAL_SPINS = val;
+#else
 	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
 
 	mutex_lock(&lock);
@@ -522,6 +530,7 @@ static int steal_spins_set(void *data, u64 val)
 		STEAL_SPINS = val;
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&lock);
+#endif
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.35.1