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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
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Subject: [PATCH] mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on
virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in
mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled
away by the hypervisor.
We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the
state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by
the hypervisor.
For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390.

We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of
a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure
out if the target cpu is physically backed.

However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with
a solution that will do the right thing on s390.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
---
arch/Kconfig | 3 +++
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
kernel/mutex.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/Kconfig
@@ -109,3 +109,6 @@ config HAVE_CLK

config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
bool
+
+config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
+ bool
Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config S390
select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP
select HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
+ select HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
select HAVE_OPROFILE
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/mutex.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock,

preempt_disable();
mutex_acquire(&lock->dep_map, subclass, 0, ip);
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES)
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) && \
+ !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES)
/*
* Optimistic spinning.
*

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