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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:36:42 +0530
From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V6 2/11] x86/ticketlock: don't inline _spin_unlock
when using paravirt spinlocks
On 03/21/2012 10:43 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Raghavendra K T
> <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
>>
>> The code size expands somewhat, and its probably better to just call
>> a function rather than inline it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T<raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +++
>> kernel/Kconfig.locks | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index 5bed94e..10c28ec 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
>>
>> If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
>>
>> +config ARCH_NOINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
>> + def_bool PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
>> +
>> config PARAVIRT_CLOCK
>> bool
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.locks b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
>> index 5068e2a..584637b 100644
>> --- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
>> +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
>> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ config INLINE_SPIN_LOCK_IRQSAVE
>> ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_LOCK_IRQSAVE
>>
>> config INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
>> - def_bool !DEBUG_SPINLOCK&& (!PREEMPT || ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK)
>> + def_bool !DEBUG_SPINLOCK&& (!PREEMPT || ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK)&& !ARCH_NOINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
>>
>> config INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK_BH
>> def_bool !DEBUG_SPINLOCK&& ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK_BH
>
> Ugh. This is getting really ugly.
>
Agree that it had become longer.
> Can we just fix it by
> - getting rid of INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK entirely
>
> - replacing it with UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK instead with the reverse
> meaning, and no "def_bool" at all, just a simple
>
> config UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
> bool
>
> - make the various people who want to uninline the spinlocks (like
> spinlock debugging, paravirt etc) all just do
>
> select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
I just posted https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/94. Please let me know
if that looks better.
And this patch should now become something like
---
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5bed94e..2666b7d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -613,6 +613,7 @@ config PARAVIRT
config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
depends on PARAVIRT && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
---help---
Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly
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