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authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-11-26 15:05:34 +0100
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mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents effective spinning on the mutex. This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/mutex.c b/kernel/mutex.c
index 200407c1502f..a5889fb28ecf 100644
--- a/kernel/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/mutex.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass,
* memory barriers as we'll eventually observe the right
* values at the cost of a few extra spins.
*/
- cpu_relax();
+ arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
}
#endif
spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);