From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:51:42 +0000 (+0100) Subject: locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~184^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb0527bd5ea99bfeb2dd91e3c1433ecf745d6b99;p=pandora-kernel.git locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning Since we want a task waiting for a mutex_lock() to go to sleep and reschedule on need_resched() we must be able to abort the mcs_spin_lock() around the adaptive spin. Therefore implement a cancelable mcs lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: davidlohr@hp.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: Jason Low Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-62hcl5wxydmjzd182zhvk89m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed