If _Q_SLOW_VAL has been set, the vCPU state must have been vcpu_hashed.
The extra check at the end of __pv_queued_spin_unlock() is unnecessary
and so is removed.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <waiman.l...@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <d...@stgolabs.net>
---
kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index c8e6e9a..6eafb9e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -364,8 +364,7 @@ __visible void __pv_queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock
*lock)
* vCPU is harmless other than the additional latency in completing
* the unlock.
*/
- if (READ_ONCE(node->state) == vcpu_hashed)
- pv_kick(node->cpu);
+ pv_kick(node->cpu);
}
/*
* Include the architecture specific callee-save thunk of the
--
1.7.1
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