1. 04 Nov, 2015 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · d63a9788
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
       "The main changes in this cycle were:
      
         - More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl()
           ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
           architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops.  (Peter Zijlstra)
      
         - Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and
           use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem.
           This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make
           use of more locking related optimizations.  (Davidlohr Bueso)
      
         - Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM.  (Will Deacon)
      
         - Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization.  (Rasmus
           Villemoes)
      
         - pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization.  (Waiman Long)
      
         - misc smaller fixlets"
      
      * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec}
        locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
        locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
        locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
        locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
        locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics
        atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()
        atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()
        atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops
        futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line
        locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
        locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
        locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
        locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking
        locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
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  2. 03 Nov, 2015 39 commits