On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:36:24PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
[...]
> As the device startup is not really happening often it's sensible to do
> the following
>
> disable_irq();
> vp_dev->intx_soft_enabled = true;
> enable_irq();
>
> because:
>
> disable_irq()
>
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 05:51:46PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> In preparation for allowing architectures to define their own
> implementation of the READ_ONCE() macro, move the generic
> {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() definitions out of the unwieldy 'linux/compiler.h'
> file and into a new 'rwonce.h' header u
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:19:23AM -0500, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> Add two corresponding helper functions to support pv-qspinlock.
>
> For normal use, __spin_yield_cpu will confer current vcpu slices to the
> target vcpu(say, a lock holder). If target vcpu is not specified or it
> is in running state,
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:19:22AM -0500, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> pSeries/powerNV will use qspinlock from now on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 8
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
> b
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> This patch add basic code to enable qspinlock on powerpc. qspinlock is
> one kind of fairlock implementation. And seen some performance improvement
> under some scenarios.
>
> queued_spin_unlock() release the lock by just one write of N
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 01:44:04PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 01:40:44PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > #define SINGLE_LOAD(x) \
> > {( \
> > compiletime_assert_at
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:27:54PM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> Commit ("x86, kvm: support vcpu preempted check") add one field "__u8
> preempted" into struct kvm_steal_time. This field tells if one vcpu is
> running or not.
>
> It is zero if 1) some old KVM deos not support this filed. 2) the vcpu
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:49:52PM +0800, Pan Xinhui wrote:
>
>
> 在 2016/9/29 23:51, Christian Borntraeger 写道:
> > this implements the s390 backend for commit
> > "kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface"
> > by reworking the existing smp_vcpu_scheduled into
> > arch_vcpu_is_preemp
Hi Xinhui,
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 05:23:55AM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> Add two corresponding helper functions to support pv-qspinlock.
>
> For normal use, __spin_yield_cpu will confer current vcpu slices to the
> target vcpu(say, a lock holder). If target vcpu is not specified or it
> is in run
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:29:21PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 02:33:40PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > You might as well just write it as
> > >
> > > struct foo x = READ_ONCE(*ptr);
> > >
Hi Paul,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 07:46:29AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:19:29PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > You could use SYNC_ACQUIRE() to implement read_barrier_depends() and
> > > smp_read_barrier_depends(), but SYNC_RMB prob
Hi Will,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:16:09PM +, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:03:22PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:42:43PM +, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:58:53PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > PPC Overlapping
elease().
> >
> >
> > But I think removing smp_lwsync() is a good idea and actually I think we
> > can go further to remove __smp_lwsync() and let __smp_load_acquire and
> > __smp_store_release call __lwsync() directly, but that is another thing.
> >
> > Anyway, I will
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 06:16:48PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
[snip]
> > > > Another thing is that smp_lwsync() may have a third user(other than
> > > > smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release()):
> > > >
> > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/89877
> > > >
> > > >
Hi Michael,
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This defines __smp_xxx barriers for powerpc
> for use by virtualization.
>
> smp_xxx barriers are removed as they are
> defined correctly by asm-generic/barriers.h
>
> This reduces the amount of arch-specific boile
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:51:17AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:36:55AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > This defines __smp_xxx barrier
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