linux-toradex.git/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.c, branch v3.15-rc6 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning 2014-03-11T11:14:56+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2014-01-29T11:51:42+00:00 fb0527bd5ea99bfeb2dd91e3c1433ecf745d6b99 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 <peterz@infradead.org> 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 <jason.low2@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-62hcl5wxydmjzd182zhvk89m@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
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 <peterz@infradead.org>
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 <jason.low2@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-62hcl5wxydmjzd182zhvk89m@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>