linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 166/187] s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning

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Message-Id: <1410818997-9432-167-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:09:36 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 166/187] s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning

3.13.11.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

commit 36e7fdaa1a04fcf65b864232e1af56a51c7814d6 upstream.

commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc (locking/mutex: Disable
optimistic spinning on some architectures) fenced spinning for
architectures without proper cmpxchg.
There is no need to disable mutex spinning on s390, though:
The instructions CS,CSG and friends provide the proper guarantees.
(We dont implement cmpxchg with locks).

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index c8d8283..8993c96 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ config S390
 	select ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQ
 	select ARCH_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
 	select ARCH_SAVE_PAGE_KEYS if HIBERNATION
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
-- 
1.9.1

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