From 335d7afbfb71faac833734a94240c1e07cf0ead8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Schaefer Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:47:36 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/mutex.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/mutex.c') diff --git a/kernel/mutex.c b/kernel/mutex.c index 200407c1502f..a5889fb28ecf 100644 --- a/kernel/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/mutex.c @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, long state, unsigned int subclass, * memory barriers as we'll eventually observe the right * values at the cost of a few extra spins. */ - cpu_relax(); + arch_mutex_cpu_relax(); } #endif spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags); -- cgit v1.2.1