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Will Deacon authored
When unlocking a spinlock, all we need to do is increment the owner field of the lock. Since only one CPU can be performing an unlock() operation for a given lock, this doesn't need to be exclusive. This patch simplifies arch_spin_unlock to use non-exclusive accesses when updating the owner field of the lock. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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