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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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- arch/Kconfig 3 additions, 0 deletionsarch/Kconfig
- arch/s390/Kconfig 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/s390/Kconfig
- arch/s390/include/asm/mutex.h 2 additions, 0 deletionsarch/s390/include/asm/mutex.h
- include/linux/mutex.h 4 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/mutex.h
- kernel/mutex.c 1 addition, 1 deletionkernel/mutex.c
- kernel/sched.c 2 additions, 1 deletionkernel/sched.c
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