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Will Deacon b519b56e37 locking/qrwlock: Use atomic_cond_read_acquire() when spinning in qrwlock
The qrwlock slowpaths involve spinning when either a prospective reader
is waiting for a concurrent writer to drain, or a prospective writer is
waiting for concurrent readers to drain. In both of these situations,
atomic_cond_read_acquire() can be used to avoid busy-waiting and make use
of any backoff functionality provided by the architecture.

This patch replaces the open-code loops and rspin_until_writer_unlock()
implementation with atomic_cond_read_acquire(). The write mode transition
zero to _QW_WAITING is left alone, since (a) this doesn't need acquire
semantics and (b) should be fast.

Tested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Tested-by: Adam Wallis <awallis@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-25 10:57:24 +02:00
arch locking/atomics/alpha: Add smp_read_barrier_depends() to _release()/_relaxed() atomics 2017-10-24 13:17:34 +02:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge commit 'tags/keys-fixes-20171018' into fixes-v4.14-rc5 2017-10-19 12:28:38 +11:00
Documentation locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
drivers locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
include locking/qrwlock: Use atomic_cond_read_acquire() when spinning in qrwlock 2017-10-25 10:57:24 +02:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
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lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-21 22:44:48 -04:00
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scripts linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h 2017-10-24 13:17:32 +02:00
security Linux 4.14-rc6 2017-10-24 13:17:20 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect TLV callback check introduced during set_fs() removal 2017-10-18 12:27:00 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-22 06:52:53 -04:00
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virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.