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authorPan Xinhui <[email protected]>2016-06-03 16:38:14 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2016-06-08 15:17:01 +0200
commitca50e426f96c905e7d14a9c7a6bd4e0330516047 (patch)
treee21ab5d1ec87777e8ebdf3d599de233648bc570b
parent6428671bae97caa7040e24e79e969fd87908f4f3 (diff)
locking/qspinlock: Use atomic_sub_return_release() in queued_spin_unlock()
The existing version uses a heavy barrier while only release semantics is required. So use atomic_sub_return_release() instead. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
index 05f05f17a7c2..9f0681bf1e87 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
@@ -111,10 +111,9 @@ static __always_inline void queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
static __always_inline void queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
/*
- * smp_mb__before_atomic() in order to guarantee release semantics
+ * unlock() needs release semantics:
*/
- smp_mb__before_atomic();
- atomic_sub(_Q_LOCKED_VAL, &lock->val);
+ (void)atomic_sub_return_release(_Q_LOCKED_VAL, &lock->val);
}
#endif