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The qrwlock slowpaths involve spinning when either a prospective reader is waiting for a concurrent writer to drain, or a prospective writer is waiting for concurrent readers to drain. In both of these situations, atomic_cond_read_acquire() can be used to avoid busy-waiting and make use of any backoff functionality provided by the architecture. This patch replaces the open-code loops and rspin_until_writer_unlock() implementation with atomic_cond_read_acquire(). The write mode transition zero to _QW_WAITING is left alone, since (a) this doesn't need acquire semantics and (b) should be fast. Tested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> Tested-by: Adam Wallis <awallis@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.