From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:45:06 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()
X-Git-Tag: v3.11.6~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b8fe6d417f93fa628779b1afd9e7717bbcb0572;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()

commit 6d07b68ce16ae9535955ba2059dedba5309c3ca1 upstream.

Operations that need access to the whole array must guarantee that there
are no simple operations ongoing.  Right now this is achieved by
spin_unlock_wait(sem->lock) on all semaphores.

If complex_count is nonzero, then this spin_unlock_wait() is not
necessary, because it was already performed in the past by the thread
that increased complex_count and even though sem_perm.lock was dropped
inbetween, no simple operation could have started, because simple
operations cannot start when complex_count is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index f647970a1fe7e..94d3c4bfb8e2b 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -248,12 +248,20 @@ static void merge_queues(struct sem_array *sma)
  * Caller must own sem_perm.lock.
  * New simple ops cannot start, because simple ops first check
  * that sem_perm.lock is free.
+ * that a) sem_perm.lock is free and b) complex_count is 0.
  */
 static void sem_wait_array(struct sem_array *sma)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct sem *sem;
 
+	if (sma->complex_count)  {
+		/* The thread that increased sma->complex_count waited on
+		 * all sem->lock locks. Thus we don't need to wait again.
+		 */
+		return;
+	}
+
 	for (i = 0; i < sma->sem_nsems; i++) {
 		sem = sma->sem_base + i;
 		spin_unlock_wait(&sem->lock);