4 * This file contains the main data structure and API definitions of MCS lock.
6 * The MCS lock (proposed by Mellor-Crummey and Scott) is a simple spin-lock
7 * with the desirable properties of being fair, and with each cpu trying
8 * to acquire the lock spinning on a local variable.
9 * It avoids expensive cache bouncings that common test-and-set spin-lock
10 * implementations incur.
12 #ifndef __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
13 #define __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H
15 #include <asm/mcs_spinlock.h>
18 struct mcs_spinlock
*next
;
19 int locked
; /* 1 if lock acquired */
20 int count
; /* nesting count, see qspinlock.c */
23 #ifndef arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended
25 * Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that ensures
26 * subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired.
28 #define arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(l) \
30 while (!(smp_load_acquire(l))) \
31 cpu_relax_lowlatency(); \
35 #ifndef arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended
37 * smp_store_release() provides a memory barrier to ensure all
38 * operations in the critical section has been completed before
41 #define arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(l) \
42 smp_store_release((l), 1)
46 * Note: the smp_load_acquire/smp_store_release pair is not
47 * sufficient to form a full memory barrier across
48 * cpus for many architectures (except x86) for mcs_unlock and mcs_lock.
49 * For applications that need a full barrier across multiple cpus
50 * with mcs_unlock and mcs_lock pair, smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() should be
51 * used after mcs_lock.
55 * In order to acquire the lock, the caller should declare a local node and
56 * pass a reference of the node to this function in addition to the lock.
57 * If the lock has already been acquired, then this will proceed to spin
58 * on this node->locked until the previous lock holder sets the node->locked
59 * in mcs_spin_unlock().
62 void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock
**lock
, struct mcs_spinlock
*node
)
64 struct mcs_spinlock
*prev
;
70 prev
= xchg_acquire(lock
, node
);
71 if (likely(prev
== NULL
)) {
73 * Lock acquired, don't need to set node->locked to 1. Threads
74 * only spin on its own node->locked value for lock acquisition.
75 * However, since this thread can immediately acquire the lock
76 * and does not proceed to spin on its own node->locked, this
77 * value won't be used. If a debug mode is needed to
78 * audit lock status, then set node->locked value here.
82 WRITE_ONCE(prev
->next
, node
);
84 /* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down. */
85 arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(&node
->locked
);
89 * Releases the lock. The caller should pass in the corresponding node that
90 * was used to acquire the lock.
93 void mcs_spin_unlock(struct mcs_spinlock
**lock
, struct mcs_spinlock
*node
)
95 struct mcs_spinlock
*next
= READ_ONCE(node
->next
);
99 * Release the lock by setting it to NULL
101 if (likely(cmpxchg_release(lock
, node
, NULL
) == node
))
103 /* Wait until the next pointer is set */
104 while (!(next
= READ_ONCE(node
->next
)))
105 cpu_relax_lowlatency();
108 /* Pass lock to next waiter. */
109 arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(&next
->locked
);
112 #endif /* __LINUX_MCS_SPINLOCK_H */