futex: Lower the lock contention on the HB lock during wake up

wake_futex_pi() wakes the task before releasing the hash bucket lock
(HB). The first thing the woken up task usually does is to acquire the
lock which requires the HB lock. On SMP Systems this leads to blocking
on the HB lock which is released by the owner shortly after.
This patch rearranges the unlock path by first releasing the HB lock and
then waking up the task.

[ tglx: Fixed up the rtmutex unlock path ]

Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150617083350.GA2433@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index f9984c3..a0cf6fa 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1117,11 +1117,14 @@ static void mark_wake_futex(struct wake_q_head *wake_q, struct futex_q *q)
 	q->lock_ptr = NULL;
 }
 
-static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this)
+static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this,
+			 struct futex_hash_bucket *hb)
 {
 	struct task_struct *new_owner;
 	struct futex_pi_state *pi_state = this->pi_state;
 	u32 uninitialized_var(curval), newval;
+	WAKE_Q(wake_q);
+	bool deboost;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!pi_state)
@@ -1173,7 +1176,19 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this)
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&new_owner->pi_lock);
 
 	raw_spin_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
-	rt_mutex_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex);
+
+	deboost = rt_mutex_futex_unlock(&pi_state->pi_mutex, &wake_q);
+
+	/*
+	 * First unlock HB so the waiter does not spin on it once he got woken
+	 * up. Second wake up the waiter before the priority is adjusted. If we
+	 * deboost first (and lose our higher priority), then the task might get
+	 * scheduled away before the wake up can take place.
+	 */
+	spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
+	wake_up_q(&wake_q);
+	if (deboost)
+		rt_mutex_adjust_prio(current);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -2413,13 +2428,23 @@ retry:
 	 */
 	match = futex_top_waiter(hb, &key);
 	if (match) {
-		ret = wake_futex_pi(uaddr, uval, match);
+		ret = wake_futex_pi(uaddr, uval, match, hb);
+		/*
+		 * In case of success wake_futex_pi dropped the hash
+		 * bucket lock.
+		 */
+		if (!ret)
+			goto out_putkey;
 		/*
 		 * The atomic access to the futex value generated a
 		 * pagefault, so retry the user-access and the wakeup:
 		 */
 		if (ret == -EFAULT)
 			goto pi_faulted;
+		/*
+		 * wake_futex_pi has detected invalid state. Tell user
+		 * space.
+		 */
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
@@ -2440,6 +2465,7 @@ retry:
 
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
+out_putkey:
 	put_futex_key(&key);
 	return ret;