locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:03:12 +0000 (13:03 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:28:20 +0000 (17:28 +0200)
commit81a43adae3b943193fb3afd20a36a7482332f964
tree09a6a2090473927939fc8d916ec12e5fec93414c
parent63ab7bd0d450b726b88fa4b932f151b98cee2557
locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics

As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic:
Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly
ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking
and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently
only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking
primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the
necessary machinery is implemented of course.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/asm-generic/mutex-dec.h
include/asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h
kernel/locking/mutex.c