locking/ww_mutex/Documentation: Update the design document
Document the invariants we maintain for the wait list of ww_mutexes. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-13-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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normal mutex locks, which are far more common. As such there is only a small
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increase in code size if wait/wound mutexes are not used.
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We maintain the following invariants for the wait list:
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(1) Waiters with an acquire context are sorted by stamp order; waiters
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without an acquire context are interspersed in FIFO order.
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(2) Among waiters with contexts, only the first one can have other locks
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acquired already (ctx->acquired > 0). Note that this waiter may come
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after other waiters without contexts in the list.
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In general, not much contention is expected. The locks are typically used to
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serialize access to resources for devices. The only way to make wakeups
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smarter would be at the cost of adding a field to struct mutex_waiter. This
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would add overhead to all cases where normal mutexes are used, and
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ww_mutexes are generally less performance sensitive.
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serialize access to resources for devices.
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Lockdep:
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Special care has been taken to warn for as many cases of api abuse
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