From a750036f35cda160ef77408ec92c3dc41f8feebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:00:45 +0100 Subject: x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issue With the write lock path simply subtracting RW_LOCK_BIAS there is, on large systems, the theoretical possibility of overflowing the 32-bit value that was used so far (namely if 128 or more CPUs manage to do the subtraction, but don't get to do the inverse addition in the failure path quickly enough). A first measure is to modify RW_LOCK_BIAS itself - with the new value chosen, it is good for up to 2048 CPUs each allowed to nest over 2048 times on the read path without causing an issue. Quite possibly it would even be sufficient to adjust the bias a little further, assuming that allowing for significantly less nesting would suffice. However, as the original value chosen allowed for even more nesting levels, to support more than 2048 CPUs (possible currently only for 64-bit kernels) the lock itself gets widened to 64 bits. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258E0D020000780004E3F0@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h index 5890beb021c4..9412d6558c88 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h @@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ # define __ASM_FORM(x) x +# define __ASM_FORM_COMMA(x) x, # define __ASM_EX_SEC .section __ex_table, "a" #else # define __ASM_FORM(x) " " #x " " +# define __ASM_FORM_COMMA(x) " " #x "," # define __ASM_EX_SEC " .section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" #endif -- cgit v1.2.3