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ipc/sem.c: alternatives to preempt_disable()
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:22:18 +0000 (10:22 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:51:01 +0000 (16:51 +1000)
commitce806597e7d2d6a3466a269bbcfa984b5eb97577
treead42d1a5f09f694fa8721d073553464b76ce74f0
parentaafe53637ed6664489a8c00920cb79c283e639a6
ipc/sem.c: alternatives to preempt_disable()

ipc/sem.c uses a custom wakeup scheme that relies on preempt_disable().
On -RT, this causes increased latencies and debug warnings.

The patch adds two additional schemes:
- one built around a completion - could be better for -RT kernels
- one built around a spinlock - unfortunately it's broken
- and the current one

My preferred solution would be the spinlock implementation: RT would use
premptible spinlocks, mainline normal spinlocks.  Thus both get the
optimal implementation without any special code in ipc/sem.c.
Unfortunately, I don't see how it could be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/sem.c