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Commit e8c158bb authored by Robin Holt's avatar Robin Holt Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Factor out #ifdefs from kernel/spinlock.c to LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS



SGI has observed that on large systems, interrupts are not serviced for a
long period of time when waiting for a rwlock.  The following patch series
re-enables irqs while waiting for the lock, resembling the code which is
already there for spinlocks.

I only made the ia64 version, because the patch adds some overhead to the
fast path.  I assume there is currently no demand to have this for other
architectures, because the systems are not so large.  Of course, the
possibility to implement raw_{read|write}_lock_flags for any architecture
is still there.

This patch:

The new macro LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS expands to the correct implementation
depending on the config options, so that IRQ's are re-enabled when
possible, but they remain disabled if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is set.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 41d577aa
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