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

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Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:25:32 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock_flags() etc

On 10/25/21 11:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:28 PM Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 10/25/21 9:06 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On s390, we pick between the cmpxchg() based directed-yield when
>>> running on virtualized CPUs, and a normal qspinlock when running on a
>>> dedicated CPU.
>> I am not aware that s390 is using qspinlocks at all as I don't see
>> ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS being set anywhere under arch/s390. I only see
>> that it uses a cmpxchg based spinlock.
> Sorry, I should not have said "normal" here. See arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c
> for their custom queued spinlocks as implemented in arch_spin_lock_queued().
> I don't know if that code actually does the same thing as the generic qspinlock,
> but it seems at least similar.

Yes, you are right. Their queued lock code looks like a custom version 
of the pvqspinlock code.

Cheers,
Longman