From f233f7f1581e78fd9b4023f2e7d8c1ed89020cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:56:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching We use the regular paravirt call patching to switch between: native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath() __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath() native_queued_spin_unlock() __pv_queued_spin_unlock() We use a callee saved call for the unlock function which reduces the i-cache footprint and allows 'inlining' of SPIN_UNLOCK functions again. We further optimize the unlock path by patching the direct call with a "movb $0,%arg1" if we are indeed using the native unlock code. This makes the unlock code almost as fast as the !PARAVIRT case. This significantly lowers the overhead of having CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS enabled, even for native code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Daniel J Blueman Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Douglas Hatch Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Scott J Norton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-10-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed