From 19d9f4225dd6a47fca430f15eeae345ceb95c301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:09:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] hrtimer: Avoid locking in hrtimer_cancel() if timer not active We can do a lockless check for hrtimer_active before actually taking the lock in hrtimer[_try_to]_cancel. This is useful for hotpath users like nanosleep as they avoid the lock dance when the timer has expired. This is safe because active is true when the timer is enqueued or the callback is running. Taking the hrtimer base lock does not protect against concurrent hrtimer_start calls, the callsite has to do the proper serialization itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Preeti U Murthy Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203503.580273114@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c index beab02d3ff1e..3bac94269a98 100644 --- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c @@ -991,6 +991,15 @@ int hrtimer_try_to_cancel(struct hrtimer *timer) unsigned long flags; int ret = -1; + /* + * Check lockless first. If the timer is not active (neither + * enqueued nor running the callback, nothing to do here. The + * base lock does not serialize against a concurrent enqueue, + * so we can avoid taking it. + */ + if (!hrtimer_active(timer)) + return 0; + base = lock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags); if (!hrtimer_callback_running(timer))