linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] arm64: do not use dummy vcpu_is

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:06:34 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] arm64: do not use dummy vcpu_is_preempted()

On (21/07/12 16:47), Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >  #include <asm/qspinlock.h>
> >  #include <asm/qrwlock.h>
> > +#include <asm/paravirt.h>
> >  
> >  /* See include/linux/spinlock.h */
> >  #define smp_mb__after_spinlock()	smp_mb()
> >  
> > -/*
> > - * Changing this will break osq_lock() thanks to the call inside
> > - * smp_cond_load_relaxed().
> > - *
> > - * See:
> > - * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200110100612.GC2827@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
> > - */
> 
> Why are you deleting this? Please explain your reasoning in the commit
> message. It seems to me that it still makes complete sense when
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT is not defined.

You are right. I'll move it to !PARAVIRT #else-branch.