Commit 8db73266 authored Aug 09, 2013 by Raghavendra K T Committed by H. Peter Anvin Aug 09, 2013

x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks



The code size expands somewhat, and its better to just call
a function rather than inline it.

Thanks Jeremy for original version of ARCH_NOINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK config patch,
which is simplified.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-3-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

parent 545ac138

arch/x86/Kconfig

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ config PARAVIRT_DEBUG
		config PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
		bool "Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks"
		depends on PARAVIRT && SMP
		select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
		---help---
		Paravirtualized spinlocks allow a pvops backend to replace the
		spinlock implementation with something virtualization-friendly

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