locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL

If _Q_SLOW_VAL has been set, the vCPU state must have been vcpu_hashed.
The extra check at the end of __pv_queued_spin_unlock() is unnecessary
and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441996658-62854-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index c8e6e9a596f5..f0450ff4829b 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -267,7 +267,6 @@ static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
                 }
 
                 if (!lp) { /* ONCE */
-                        WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_hashed);
                         lp = pv_hash(lock, pn);
 
                         /*
@@ -275,11 +274,9 @@ static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
                          * when we observe _Q_SLOW_VAL in __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
                          * we'll be sure to be able to observe our hash entry.
                          *
-                         *   [S] pn->state
                          *   [S] <hash>                 [Rmw] l->locked == _Q_SLOW_VAL
                          *       MB                           RMB
                          * [RmW] l->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL  [L] <unhash>
-                         *                                [L] pn->state
                          *
                          * Matches the smp_rmb() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock().
                          */
@@ -364,8 +361,7 @@ __visible void __pv_queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
          * vCPU is harmless other than the additional latency in completing
          * the unlock.
          */
-        if (READ_ONCE(node->state) == vcpu_hashed)
-                pv_kick(node->cpu);
+        pv_kick(node->cpu);
 }
 /*
  * Include the architecture specific callee-save thunk of the