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Peter Zijlstra 4f3aaf2c2b x86, locking: Use no more OOSTORE nonsense
Paul reported that X86_OOSTORE is dead, yay! Update a comment and
remove a newly added reference.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611090509.GC3588@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-18 18:41:22 +02:00
Waiman Long bd01ec1a13 x86, locking/rwlocks: Enable qrwlocks on x86
Make x86 use the fair rwlock_t.

Implement the custom queue_write_unlock() for best performance.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
[peterz: near complete rewrite]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-r1xuzmdysvuhl3h86n5fbxi7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-06 07:58:29 +02:00