locking/rwsem: Avoid double checking before try acquiring write lock

Commit 9b0fc9c09f1b ("rwsem: skip initial trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed")
checks for if there are known active lockers in order to avoid write trylocking
using expensive cmpxchg() when it likely wouldn't get the lock.

However, a subsequent patch was added such that we directly
check for sem->count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS right before trying
that cmpxchg().

Thus, commit 9b0fc9c09f1b now just adds overhead.

This patch modifies it so that we only do a check for if
count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.

Also, add a comment on why we do an "extra check" of count
before the cmpxchg().

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[e-mail]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[e-mail]>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <[e-mail]>
Cc: Peter Hurley <[e-mail]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[e-mail]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410913017.2447.22.camel@j-VirtualBox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>

kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c

···
 
 static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(long count, struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 {
-	if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)) {
-		/* try acquiring the write lock */
-		if (sem->count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
-		    cmpxchg(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS,
-			    RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS) == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
-			if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
-				rwsem_atomic_update(RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, sem);
-			return true;
-		}
+	/*
+	 * Try acquiring the write lock. Check count first in order
+	 * to reduce unnecessary expensive cmpxchg() operations.
+	 */
+	if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
+	    cmpxchg(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS,
+		    RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS) == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
+		if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
+			rwsem_atomic_update(RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, sem);
+		return true;
 	}
+
 	return false;
 }