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-rw-r--r--lib/rwsem.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rwsem.c b/lib/rwsem.c
index a3e68bf..318d435 100644
--- a/lib/rwsem.c
+++ b/lib/rwsem.c
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
goto readers_only;
if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED)
+ /* Another active reader was observed, so wakeup is not
+ * likely to succeed. Save the atomic op.
+ */
goto out;
/* There's a writer at the front of the queue - try to grant it the
@@ -111,8 +114,8 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
* count adjustment pretty soon.
*/
if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_ANY &&
- (rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK))
- /* Someone grabbed the sem already */
+ rwsem_atomic_update(0, sem) < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
+ /* Someone grabbed the sem for write already */
goto out;
/* Grant an infinite number of read locks to the readers at the front
@@ -187,9 +190,17 @@ rwsem_down_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
count = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem);
- /* if there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up */
- if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK))
+ /* If there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es) up.
+ *
+ * Alternatively, if we're called from a failed down_write(), there
+ * were already threads queued before us and there are no active
+ * writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to wake any read
+ * locks that were queued ahead of us. */
+ if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_NO_ACTIVE);
+ else if (count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
+ adjustment == -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
+ sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED);
spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
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