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| author |   Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> | 2010-11-22 15:47:36 +0100 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-11-26 15:05:34 +0100 |
| commit | 335d7afbfb71faac833734a94240c1e07cf0ead8 (patch) | |
| tree | 483a24c6005af6eb25a256d92a697411d94a7458 /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into sched/core (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-335d7afbfb71faac833734a94240c1e07cf0ead8.tar.xz linux-dev-335d7afbfb71faac833734a94240c1e07cf0ead8.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 8bf0fa652eb6..f78c2be4242b 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -175,4 +175,7 @@ config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL bool +config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX + bool + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |