locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock

When running workloads that have high contention in mutexes on an 8 socket
machine, mutex spinners would often spin for a long time with no lock owner.

The main reason why this is occuring is in __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(),
if __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock(), then the owner needs to acquire the
mutex->wait_lock before releasing the mutex (setting lock->count to 1). When
the wait_lock is contended, this delays the mutex from being released.
We should be able to release the mutex without holding the wait_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davidlohr@hp.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: scott.norton@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390936396-3962-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 82dad2ccd40b..dc3d6f2bbe2a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -671,10 +671,6 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested)
         struct mutex *lock = container_of(lock_count, struct mutex, count);
         unsigned long flags;
 
-        spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);
-        mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_);
-        debug_mutex_unlock(lock);
-
         /*
          * some architectures leave the lock unlocked in the fastpath failure
          * case, others need to leave it locked. In the later case we have to
@@ -683,6 +679,10 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested)
         if (__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock())
                 atomic_set(&lock->count, 1);
 
+        spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);
+        mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_);
+        debug_mutex_unlock(lock);
+
         if (!list_empty(&lock->wait_list)) {
                 /* get the first entry from the wait-list: */
                 struct mutex_waiter *waiter =