[PATCH] mutex subsystem, add asm-generic/mutex-[dec|xchg|null].h implementations

Add three (generic) mutex fastpath implementations.

The mutex-xchg.h implementation is atomic_xchg() based, and should
work fine on every architecture.

The mutex-dec.h implementation is atomic_dec_return() based - this
one too should work on every architecture, but might not perform the
most optimally on architectures that have no atomic-dec/inc instructions.

The mutex-null.h implementation forces all calls into the slowpath. This
is used for mutex debugging, but it can also be used on platforms that do
not want (or need) a fastpath at all.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 110 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mutex-dec.h b/include/asm-generic/mutex-dec.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74b18cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/mutex-dec.h
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/*
+ * asm-generic/mutex-dec.h
+ *
+ * Generic implementation of the mutex fastpath, based on atomic
+ * decrement/increment.
+ */
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_MUTEX_DEC_H
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_MUTEX_DEC_H
+
+/**
+ *  __mutex_fastpath_lock - try to take the lock by moving the count
+ *                          from 1 to a 0 value
+ *  @count: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *  @fail_fn: function to call if the original value was not 1
+ *
+ * Change the count from 1 to a value lower than 1, and call <fail_fn> if
+ * it wasn't 1 originally. This function MUST leave the value lower than
+ * 1 even when the "1" assertion wasn't true.
+ */
+#define __mutex_fastpath_lock(count, fail_fn)				\
+do {									\
+	if (unlikely(atomic_dec_return(count) < 0))			\
+		fail_fn(count);						\
+	else								\
+		smp_mb();						\
+} while (0)
+
+/**
+ *  __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval - try to take the lock by moving the count
+ *                                 from 1 to a 0 value
+ *  @count: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *  @fail_fn: function to call if the original value was not 1
+ *
+ * Change the count from 1 to a value lower than 1, and call <fail_fn> if
+ * it wasn't 1 originally. This function returns 0 if the fastpath succeeds,
+ * or anything the slow path function returns.
+ */
+static inline int
+__mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(atomic_t *count, int (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
+{
+	if (unlikely(atomic_dec_return(count) < 0))
+		return fail_fn(count);
+	else {
+		smp_mb();
+		return 0;
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ *  __mutex_fastpath_unlock - try to promote the count from 0 to 1
+ *  @count: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *  @fail_fn: function to call if the original value was not 0
+ *
+ * Try to promote the count from 0 to 1. If it wasn't 0, call <fail_fn>.
+ * In the failure case, this function is allowed to either set the value to
+ * 1, or to set it to a value lower than 1.
+ *
+ * If the implementation sets it to a value of lower than 1, then the
+ * __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() macro needs to return 1, it needs
+ * to return 0 otherwise.
+ */
+#define __mutex_fastpath_unlock(count, fail_fn)				\
+do {									\
+	smp_mb();							\
+	if (unlikely(atomic_inc_return(count) <= 0))			\
+		fail_fn(count);						\
+} while (0)
+
+#define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()		1
+
+/**
+ * __mutex_fastpath_trylock - try to acquire the mutex, without waiting
+ *
+ *  @count: pointer of type atomic_t
+ *  @fail_fn: fallback function
+ *
+ * Change the count from 1 to a value lower than 1, and return 0 (failure)
+ * if it wasn't 1 originally, or return 1 (success) otherwise. This function
+ * MUST leave the value lower than 1 even when the "1" assertion wasn't true.
+ * Additionally, if the value was < 0 originally, this function must not leave
+ * it to 0 on failure.
+ *
+ * If the architecture has no effective trylock variant, it should call the
+ * <fail_fn> spinlock-based trylock variant unconditionally.
+ */
+static inline int
+__mutex_fastpath_trylock(atomic_t *count, int (*fail_fn)(atomic_t *))
+{
+	/*
+	 * We have two variants here. The cmpxchg based one is the best one
+	 * because it never induce a false contention state.  It is included
+	 * here because architectures using the inc/dec algorithms over the
+	 * xchg ones are much more likely to support cmpxchg natively.
+	 *
+	 * If not we fall back to the spinlock based variant - that is
+	 * just as efficient (and simpler) as a 'destructive' probing of
+	 * the mutex state would be.
+	 */
+#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
+	if (likely(atomic_cmpxchg(count, 1, 0)) == 1) {
+		smp_mb();
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+#else
+	return fail_fn(count);
+#endif
+}
+
+#endif