Commit 00b41ec2 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

Revert "semaphore: fix"

This reverts commit bf726eab, as it has
been reported to cause a regression with processes stuck in __down(),
apparently because some missing wakeup.

Quoth Sven Wegener:
 "I'm currently investigating a regression that has showed up with my
  last git pull yesterday.  Bisecting the commits showed bf726e
  "semaphore: fix" to be the culprit, reverting it fixed the issue.

  Symptoms: During heavy filesystem usage (e.g.  a kernel compile) I get
  several compiler processes in uninterruptible sleep, blocking all i/o
  on the filesystem.  System is an Intel Core 2 Quad running a 64bit
  kernel and userspace.  Filesystem is xfs on top of lvm.  See below for
  the output of sysrq-w."

See

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/10/45

for full report.

In the meantime, we can just fix the BKL performance regression by
reverting back to the good old BKL spinlock implementation instead,
since any sleeping lock will generally perform badly, especially if it
tries to be fair.
Reported-by: default avatarSven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 39f004ba
......@@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ void down(struct semaphore *sem)
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->lock, flags);
if (unlikely(!sem->count))
if (likely(sem->count > 0))
sem->count--;
else
__down(sem);
sem->count--;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(down);
......@@ -76,10 +77,10 @@ int down_interruptible(struct semaphore *sem)
int result = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->lock, flags);
if (unlikely(!sem->count))
result = __down_interruptible(sem);
if (!result)
if (likely(sem->count > 0))
sem->count--;
else
result = __down_interruptible(sem);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->lock, flags);
return result;
......@@ -102,10 +103,10 @@ int down_killable(struct semaphore *sem)
int result = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->lock, flags);
if (unlikely(!sem->count))
result = __down_killable(sem);
if (!result)
if (likely(sem->count > 0))
sem->count--;
else
result = __down_killable(sem);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->lock, flags);
return result;
......@@ -156,10 +157,10 @@ int down_timeout(struct semaphore *sem, long jiffies)
int result = 0;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->lock, flags);
if (unlikely(!sem->count))
result = __down_timeout(sem, jiffies);
if (!result)
if (likely(sem->count > 0))
sem->count--;
else
result = __down_timeout(sem, jiffies);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->lock, flags);
return result;
......@@ -178,8 +179,9 @@ void up(struct semaphore *sem)
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->lock, flags);
sem->count++;
if (unlikely(!list_empty(&sem->wait_list)))
if (likely(list_empty(&sem->wait_list)))
sem->count++;
else
__up(sem);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->lock, flags);
}
......@@ -190,6 +192,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(up);
struct semaphore_waiter {
struct list_head list;
struct task_struct *task;
int up;
};
/*
......@@ -202,34 +205,33 @@ static inline int __sched __down_common(struct semaphore *sem, long state,
{
struct task_struct *task = current;
struct semaphore_waiter waiter;
int ret = 0;
waiter.task = task;
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
waiter.task = task;
waiter.up = 0;
for (;;) {
if (state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE && signal_pending(task)) {
ret = -EINTR;
break;
}
if (state == TASK_KILLABLE && fatal_signal_pending(task)) {
ret = -EINTR;
break;
}
if (timeout <= 0) {
ret = -ETIME;
break;
}
if (state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE && signal_pending(task))
goto interrupted;
if (state == TASK_KILLABLE && fatal_signal_pending(task))
goto interrupted;
if (timeout <= 0)
goto timed_out;
__set_task_state(task, state);
spin_unlock_irq(&sem->lock);
timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
spin_lock_irq(&sem->lock);
if (sem->count > 0)
break;
if (waiter.up)
return 0;
}
timed_out:
list_del(&waiter.list);
return -ETIME;
interrupted:
list_del(&waiter.list);
return ret;
return -EINTR;
}
static noinline void __sched __down(struct semaphore *sem)
......@@ -256,5 +258,7 @@ static noinline void __sched __up(struct semaphore *sem)
{
struct semaphore_waiter *waiter = list_first_entry(&sem->wait_list,
struct semaphore_waiter, list);
list_del(&waiter->list);
waiter->up = 1;
wake_up_process(waiter->task);
}
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