linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: Don't enable GENERIC

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Message-ID: <20120805132001.GA1591@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Sun, 5 Aug 2012 14:20:02 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Don't enable GENERIC_LOCKBREAK with ticket spinlocks

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:42:42PM +0100, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Now that ARM has implemented its spinlocks with tickets we don't
> need to use the generic lockbreak algorithm. Remove the Kconfig
> from ARM so that we use the arch_spin_is_contended() definition
> from the asm header. This also saves a word in each lock because
> we don't need the break_lock member anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> ---
> 
> It seems we define the arch_spin_is_contended() macro but we don't
> use it on SMP && PREEMPT kernels?

Thanks, I missed that.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Will
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