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Commit 335d7afb authored by Gerald Schaefer's avatar Gerald Schaefer Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 22a867d8
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