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- Hard-disable interrupts before taking the lock, which prevents soft-NMI re-entrancy and therefore can prevent deadlocks. - Use raw_ variants of local_irq_disable to avoid irq debugging. - When the lock is contended, spin at low SMT priority, using loads only, and with interrupts enabled (where possible). Some stalls have been noticed at high loads that go away with improved locking. There should not be so much locking contention in the first place (which is addressed in a subsequent patch), but locking should still be improved. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.