From 5c94c30e1bb87021880e5e34d9dec1e98a62c15c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bananymous <oskari.alaranta@bananymous.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 02:16:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Kernel: Use spinlocks instead of mutexes for RWLock

All the operations are super fast, just checking or changing few
integers, there is no need for a yielding mutex :^)
---
 kernel/include/kernel/Lock/RWLock.h | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 kernel/kernel/Storage/DiskCache.cpp |  1 +
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/include/kernel/Lock/RWLock.h b/kernel/include/kernel/Lock/RWLock.h
index 46ab8550..b829bf7c 100644
--- a/kernel/include/kernel/Lock/RWLock.h
+++ b/kernel/include/kernel/Lock/RWLock.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
-#include <kernel/Lock/Mutex.h>
-#include <kernel/Lock/LockGuard.h>
+#include <kernel/Lock/SpinLock.h>
+#include <kernel/Lock/SpinLockAsMutex.h>
 
 namespace Kernel
 {
@@ -15,15 +15,18 @@ namespace Kernel
 
 		void rd_lock()
 		{
-			LockGuard _(m_mutex);
+			SpinLockGuard _(m_lock);
 			while (m_writers_waiting > 0 || m_writer != -1)
-				m_thread_blocker.block_indefinite(&m_mutex);
+			{
+				SpinLockGuardAsMutex smutex(_);
+				m_thread_blocker.block_indefinite(&smutex);
+			}
 			m_readers_active++;
 		}
 
 		void rd_unlock()
 		{
-			LockGuard _(m_mutex);
+			SpinLockGuard _(m_lock);
 			if (--m_readers_active == 0)
 				m_thread_blocker.unblock();
 		}
@@ -36,11 +39,14 @@ namespace Kernel
 				return;
 			}
 
-			LockGuard _(m_mutex);
+			SpinLockGuard _(m_lock);
 
 			m_writers_waiting++;
 			while (m_readers_active > 0 || m_writer != -1)
-				m_thread_blocker.block_indefinite(&m_mutex);
+			{
+				SpinLockGuardAsMutex smutex(_);
+				m_thread_blocker.block_indefinite(&smutex);
+			}
 			m_writers_waiting--;
 
 			m_writer = Thread::current_tid();
@@ -51,13 +57,13 @@ namespace Kernel
 		{
 			if (--m_writer_depth != 0)
 				return;
-			LockGuard _(m_mutex);
+			SpinLockGuard _(m_lock);
 			m_writer = -1;
 			m_thread_blocker.unblock();
 		}
 
 	private:
-		Mutex m_mutex;
+		SpinLock m_lock;
 		ThreadBlocker m_thread_blocker;
 		uint32_t m_readers_active  { 0 };
 		uint32_t m_writers_waiting { 0 };
diff --git a/kernel/kernel/Storage/DiskCache.cpp b/kernel/kernel/Storage/DiskCache.cpp
index c4c6d2fa..547b5444 100644
--- a/kernel/kernel/Storage/DiskCache.cpp
+++ b/kernel/kernel/Storage/DiskCache.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include <BAN/ScopeGuard.h>
 #include <kernel/BootInfo.h>
+#include <kernel/Lock/LockGuard.h>
 #include <kernel/Memory/Heap.h>
 #include <kernel/Memory/PageTable.h>
 #include <kernel/Storage/DiskCache.h>