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Commit 7f56b58a authored by Jason Low's avatar Jason Low Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/mcs: Use smp_cond_load_acquire() in MCS spin loop



For qspinlocks on ARM64, we would like to use WFE instead
of purely spinning. Qspinlocks internally have lock
contenders spin on an MCS lock.

Update arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended() such that it uses
the new smp_cond_load_acquire() so that ARM64 can also
override this spin loop with its own implementation using WFE.

On x86, this can also be cheaper than spinning on
smp_load_acquire().

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-9-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent f9c811fa
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