From fb0527bd5ea99bfeb2dd91e3c1433ecf745d6b99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:51:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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-format-patch failed