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task_work_run: don't take ->pi_lock unconditionally 

As Peter pointed out, task_work() can avoid ->pi_lock and cmpxchg()
if task->task_works == NULL && !PF_EXITING.

And in fact the only reason why task_work_run() needs ->pi_lock is
the possible race with task_work_cancel(), we can optimize this code
and make the locking more clear.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
alistair/sensors
Oleg Nesterov 2020-02-18 16:50:18 +01:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 3684f24653
commit 6fb614920b
1 changed files with 14 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -97,16 +97,26 @@ void task_work_run(void)
* work->func() can do task_work_add(), do not set
* work_exited unless the list is empty.
*/
raw_spin_lock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
do {
head = NULL;
work = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
head = !work && (task->flags & PF_EXITING) ?
&work_exited : NULL;
if (!work) {
if (task->flags & PF_EXITING)
head = &work_exited;
else
break;
}
} while (cmpxchg(&task->task_works, work, head) != work);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
if (!work)
break;
/*
* Synchronize with task_work_cancel(). It can not remove
* the first entry == work, cmpxchg(task_works) must fail.
* But it can remove another entry from the ->next list.
*/
raw_spin_lock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&task->pi_lock);
do {
next = work->next;