On Alpha we have spinlocks that are 32b in size and an efficient
cmpxchg64 implementation, so we qualify to make use of cmpxchg backed
lockrefs. Select the ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF Kconfig symbol and provide
a trivial implementation of arch_spin_value_unlocked to satisfy the
lockref code.
Using Linus' simple testcase from
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/77466 on a dual CPU
ES47 system I see around an 8% gain:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 30 6194580 6295654 6272504 6272514 17694.232
+ 30 6731164 6786334 6767982 6764274 13738.863
Difference at 95.0% confidence
491760 +/- 8188.17
7.83992% +/- 0.130541%
(Student's t, pooled s = 15840.5)
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
The arch_{spin,read,write}_relax macros are not used anywhere in the
kernel and are typically just aliases for cpu_relax().
This patch removes the unused definitions for Alpha.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt.
Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the
name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin,
atomic_spin or whatever
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Sam Ravnborg did the build-test that the direct header file move works,
I'm just committing it.
This is a pure move:
mkdir arch/alpha/include
git mv include/asm-alpha arch/alpha/include/asm
with no other changes.
Requested-and-tested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
