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Will Deacon authored
Commit a76d7bd9 ("ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+") removed the barrier-less, ARM-specific mutex implementation in favour of the generic xchg-based code. Since then, a bug was uncovered in the xchg code when running on SMP platforms, due to interactions between the locking paths and the MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER code. This was fixed in 0bce9c46 ("mutex: place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure"), however, the atomic_dec-based mutex algorithm is now marginally more efficient for ARM (~0.5% improvement in hackbench scores on dual A15). This patch moves ARMv6+ platforms to the atomic_dec-based mutex code. Acked-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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