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Revision d7d760efad70c7a030725499bf9f342f04af24dd authored by Waiman Long on 15 May 2018, 21:49:50 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 16 May 2018, 09:45:15 UTC 
locking/rwsem: Add a new RWSEM_ANONYMOUSLY_OWNED flag
 
There are use cases where a rwsem can be acquired by one task, but
released by another task. In thess cases, optimistic spinning may need
to be disabled.  One example will be the filesystem freeze/thaw code
where the task that freezes the filesystem will acquire a write lock
on a rwsem and then un-owns it before returning to userspace. Later on,
another task will come along, acquire the ownership, thaw the filesystem
and release the rwsem.

Bit 0 of the owner field was used to designate that it is a reader
owned rwsem. It is now repurposed to mean that the owner of the rwsem
is not known. If only bit 0 is set, the rwsem is reader owned. If bit
0 and other bits are set, it is writer owned with an unknown owner.
One such value for the latter case is (-1L). So we can set owner to 1 for
reader-owned, -1 for writer-owned. The owner is unknown in both cases.

To handle transfer of rwsem ownership, the higher level code should
set the owner field to -1 to indicate a write-locked rwsem with unknown
owner.  Optimistic spinning will be disabled in this case.

Once the higher level code figures who the new owner is, it can then
set the owner field accordingly.

Tested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526420991-21213-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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test_static_key_base.c 
/*
 * Kernel module for testing static keys.
 *
 * Copyright 2015 Akamai Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved
 *
 * Authors:
 *      Jason Baron       <jbaron@akamai.com>
 *
 * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
 * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
 * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 */

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/jump_label.h>

/* old keys */
struct static_key base_old_true_key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_old_true_key);
struct static_key base_inv_old_true_key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_inv_old_true_key);
struct static_key base_old_false_key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_old_false_key);
struct static_key base_inv_old_false_key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_inv_old_false_key);

/* new keys */
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(base_true_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_true_key);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(base_inv_true_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_inv_true_key);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(base_false_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_false_key);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(base_inv_false_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base_inv_false_key);

static void invert_key(struct static_key *key)
{
	if (static_key_enabled(key))
		static_key_disable(key);
	else
		static_key_enable(key);
}

static int __init test_static_key_base_init(void)
{
	invert_key(&base_inv_old_true_key);
	invert_key(&base_inv_old_false_key);
	invert_key(&base_inv_true_key.key);
	invert_key(&base_inv_false_key.key);

	return 0;
}

static void __exit test_static_key_base_exit(void)
{
}

module_init(test_static_key_base_init);
module_exit(test_static_key_base_exit);

MODULE_AUTHOR("Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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