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authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>2009-04-02 16:59:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:05:10 -0700
commite8c158bb313c1df421eab7dc4299cd39cbbf5895 (patch)
tree8a5f1d01e58d0e358b2b0c9407fc494912e83c27 /kernel
parent41d577aa35aa0504fe28b76a948908bdb7fbec81 (diff)
downloadlinux-e8c158bb313c1df421eab7dc4299cd39cbbf5895.tar.gz
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: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Robin 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/spinlock.c12
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/spinlock.c b/kernel/spinlock.c
index 29ab20749dd3..7283c6dc2d59 100644
--- a/kernel/spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/spinlock.c
@@ -299,16 +299,8 @@ unsigned long __lockfunc _spin_lock_irqsave_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclas
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	preempt_disable();
 	spin_acquire(&lock->dep_map, subclass, 0, _RET_IP_);
-	/*
-	 * On lockdep we dont want the hand-coded irq-enable of
-	 * _raw_spin_lock_flags() code, because lockdep assumes
-	 * that interrupts are not re-enabled during lock-acquire:
-	 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
-	LOCK_CONTENDED(lock, _raw_spin_trylock, _raw_spin_lock);
-#else
-	_raw_spin_lock_flags(lock, &flags);
-#endif
+	LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS(lock, _raw_spin_trylock, _raw_spin_lock,
+				_raw_spin_lock_flags, &flags);
 	return flags;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_spin_lock_irqsave_nested);