linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock

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Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:37:22 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock_flags() etc

On 10/22/21 7:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> parisc, ia64 and powerpc32 are the only remaining architectures that
> provide custom arch_{spin,read,write}_lock_flags() functions, which are
> meant to re-enable interrupts while waiting for a spinlock.
>
> However, none of these can actually run into this codepath, because
> it is only called on architectures without CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK,
> or when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set without CONFIG_LOCKDEP, and none
> of those combinations are possible on the three architectures.
>
> Going back in the git history, it appears that arch/mn10300 may have
> been able to run into this code path, but there is a good chance that
> it never worked. On the architectures that still exist, it was
> already impossible to hit back in 2008 after the introduction of
> CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and possibly earlier.
>
> As this is all dead code, just remove it and the helper functions built
> around it. For arch/ia64, the inline asm could be cleaned up, but
> it seems safer to leave it untouched.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Does that mean we can also remove the GENERIC_LOCKBREAK config option 
from the Kconfig files as well?

Cheers,
Longman