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authorFrans Kaashoek <[email protected]>2011-08-26 10:08:29 -0400
committerFrans Kaashoek <[email protected]>2011-08-26 10:08:29 -0400
commit3a5fa7ed9020eaf8ab843a16d26db7393b2ec072 (patch)
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Introduce and use sleeplocks instead of BUSY flags
Remove I_BUSY, B_BUSY, and intrans defs and usages One spinlock per buf to avoid ugly loop in bget fix race in filewrite (don't update f->off after releasing lock)
Diffstat (limited to 'spinlock.c')
-rw-r--r--spinlock.c42
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/spinlock.c b/spinlock.c
index a16621c..c1f6a96 100644
--- a/spinlock.c
+++ b/spinlock.c
@@ -17,10 +17,9 @@ initlock(struct spinlock *lk, char *name)
lk->cpu = 0;
}
-// Acquire the lock.
-// Loops (spins) until the lock is acquired.
-// Holding a lock for a long time may cause
-// other CPUs to waste time spinning to acquire it.
+// Acquire a spin lock. Loops (spins) until the lock is acquired.
+// Holding a lock for a long time may cause other CPUs to waste time spinning to acquire it.
+// Spinlocks shouldn't be held across sleep(); for those cases, use sleeplocks.
void
acquire(struct spinlock *lk)
{
@@ -115,3 +114,38 @@ popcli(void)
sti();
}
+void
+initsleeplock(struct sleeplock *l)
+{
+ l->locked = 0;
+}
+
+// Grab the sleeplock that is protected by spinl. Sleeplocks allow a process to lock
+// a data structure for long times, including across sleeps. Other processes that try
+// to acquire a sleeplock will be put to sleep when another process hold the sleeplock.
+// To update status of the sleeplock atomically, the caller must hold spinl
+void
+acquire_sleeplock(struct sleeplock *sleepl, struct spinlock *spinl)
+{
+ while (sleepl->locked) {
+ sleep(sleepl, spinl);
+ }
+ sleepl->locked = 1;
+}
+
+// Release the sleeplock that is protected by a spin lock
+// Caller must hold the spinlock that protects the sleeplock
+void
+release_sleeplock(struct sleeplock *sleepl)
+{
+ sleepl->locked = 0;
+ wakeup(sleepl);
+}
+
+// Is the sleeplock acquired?
+// Caller must hold the spinlock that protects the sleeplock
+int
+acquired_sleeplock(struct sleeplock *sleepl)
+{
+ return sleepl->locked;
+}