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locking/qspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg() instead of cmpxchg() when locking
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:34:26 +0000 (11:34 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:48:52 +0000 (09:48 +0200)
commitae75d9089ff7095d1d1a12c3cd86b21d3eaf3b15
treea20982c45c6d23b63e8f7debae5946b4f8604c09
parent9d4646d14d51d62b967a12452c30ea7edf8dd8fa
locking/qspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg() instead of cmpxchg() when locking

When reaching the head of an uncontended queue on the qspinlock slow-path,
using a try_cmpxchg() instead of a cmpxchg() operation to transition the
lock work to _Q_LOCKED_VAL generates slightly better code for x86 and
pretty much identical code for arm64.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-13-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/qspinlock.c