From 335d7afbfb71faac833734a94240c1e07cf0ead8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Schaefer Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:47:36 +0100 Subject: mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax() The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents effective spinning on the mutex. This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/Kconfig | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 8bf0fa65..f78c2be 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -175,4 +175,7 @@ config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL bool +config HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX + bool + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.1