x86/ticketlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() livelock

arch_spin_unlock_wait() looks very suboptimal, to the point I
think this is just wrong and can lead to livelock: if the lock
is heavily contended we can never see head == tail.

But we do not need to wait for arch_spin_is_locked() == F. If it
is locked we only need to wait until the current owner drops
this lock. So we could simply spin until old_head !=
lock->tickets.head in this case, but .head can overflow and thus
we can't check "unlocked" only once before the main loop.

Also, the "unlocked" check can ignore TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG bit.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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