From 27bd57aa81d976211e1b2ddbc85bec06bddeb7e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolai=20H=C3=A4hnle?= Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:46:40 +0100 Subject: locking/ww_mutex/Documentation: Update the design document MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Document the invariants we maintain for the wait list of ww_mutexes. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-13-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/locking') diff --git a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt index 8a112dc304c3..34c3a1b50b9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt @@ -309,11 +309,15 @@ Design: normal mutex locks, which are far more common. As such there is only a small increase in code size if wait/wound mutexes are not used. + We maintain the following invariants for the wait list: + (1) Waiters with an acquire context are sorted by stamp order; waiters + without an acquire context are interspersed in FIFO order. + (2) Among waiters with contexts, only the first one can have other locks + acquired already (ctx->acquired > 0). Note that this waiter may come + after other waiters without contexts in the list. + In general, not much contention is expected. The locks are typically used to - serialize access to resources for devices. The only way to make wakeups - smarter would be at the cost of adding a field to struct mutex_waiter. This - would add overhead to all cases where normal mutexes are used, and - ww_mutexes are generally less performance sensitive. + serialize access to resources for devices. Lockdep: Special care has been taken to warn for as many cases of api abuse -- cgit v1.2.3