[PATCH 3.13 166/187] s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 15 22:09:36 UTC 2014


3.13.11.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>

commit 36e7fdaa1a04fcf65b864232e1af56a51c7814d6 upstream.

commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc (locking/mutex: Disable
optimistic spinning on some architectures) fenced spinning for
architectures without proper cmpxchg.
There is no need to disable mutex spinning on s390, though:
The instructions CS,CSG and friends provide the proper guarantees.
(We dont implement cmpxchg with locks).

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index c8d8283..8993c96 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ config S390
 	select ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQ
 	select ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
 	select ARCH_SAVE_PAGE_KEYS if HIBERNATION
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
-- 
1.9.1





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