power-supply: Mark 'if' blocks in power_supply_changed_work() with 'likely'
authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:01:32 +0000 (17:31 +0530)
committerSebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:01:35 +0000 (11:01 +0200)
The 'if' statements in power_supply_changed_work() are mostly there for taking
care of races and normally they will always evaluate to true. Optimize them for
fast execution with 'likely' statements.

Also there is need to have better comments in code to mention about the races
clearly. Get them in place.

Cc: Zoran Markovic <zrn.markovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
drivers/power/power_supply_core.c

index bcff7fdf733ab96dd7edcecf50b9820785fe56e1..26518c8218ea32203c3ce74f42ee5578a773186e 100644 (file)
@@ -78,7 +78,14 @@ static void power_supply_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
        dev_dbg(psy->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&psy->changed_lock, flags);
-       if (psy->changed) {
+       /*
+        * Check 'changed' here to avoid issues due to race between
+        * power_supply_changed() and this routine. In worst case
+        * power_supply_changed() can be called again just before we take above
+        * lock. During the first call of this routine we will mark 'changed' as
+        * false and it will stay false for the next call as well.
+        */
+       if (likely(psy->changed)) {
                psy->changed = false;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psy->changed_lock, flags);
                class_for_each_device(power_supply_class, NULL, psy,
@@ -89,12 +96,13 @@ static void power_supply_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
                kobject_uevent(&psy->dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE);
                spin_lock_irqsave(&psy->changed_lock, flags);
        }
+
        /*
-        * Dependent power supplies (e.g. battery) may have changed state
-        * as a result of this event, so poll again and hold the
-        * wakeup_source until all events are processed.
+        * Hold the wakeup_source until all events are processed.
+        * power_supply_changed() might have called again and have set 'changed'
+        * to true.
         */
-       if (!psy->changed)
+       if (likely(!psy->changed))
                pm_relax(psy->dev);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psy->changed_lock, flags);
 }