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Subject[tip:locking/core] locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted
Commit-ID:  75437bb304b20a2b350b9a8e9f9238d5e24e12ba
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/75437bb304b20a2b350b9a8e9f9238d5e24e12ba
Author: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 02:56:46 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:35:57 +0100

locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted

If prev node is not in running state or its vCPU is preempted, we can give
up our vCPU slices in pv_wait_node() ASAP.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484035006-6787-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Fixed typos in the changelog, removed ugly linebreak from the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index e3b5520..e6b2f7a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ pv_wait_early(struct pv_node *prev, int loop)
if ((loop & PV_PREV_CHECK_MASK) != 0)
return false;

- return READ_ONCE(prev->state) != vcpu_running;
+ return READ_ONCE(prev->state) != vcpu_running || vcpu_is_preempted(prev->cpu);
}

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