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v2 is updated to account for feedback from Will, Peter, and Waiman (thank you), and trims off a couple of RFC and unrelated patches. Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued

Updated with everybody's feedback (thanks all), and more performance results. What I've found is I might have been measuring the worst load point for the paravirt case, and by looking at a range of loads it's clear that queued spinlocks are overall better even on PV, doubly so when you look at the generally much improved worst case latencies. I have defaulted it to N even though

Hi all, Although [smp_]read_barrier_depends() became part of READ_ONCE() in commit 76ebbe78f739 ("locking/barriers: Add implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()"), it still limps on in the Linux memory model with the sinister hope of attracting innocent new users so that it becomes impossible to remove altogether. Let's strike before it's too late: there's only

This series adds an option to use queued spinlocks for powerpc, and makes it the default for the Book3S-64 subarch. This effort starts with the generic code so it's very simple but still very performant. There are optimisations that can be made to slowpaths, but I think it's better to attack those incrementally if/when we find things, and try to add the improvements to generic code as

v3 is updated to use __pv_queued_spin_unlock, noticed by Waiman (thank you). Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks powerpc/pseries: implement paravirt

v3 is updated to use __pv_queued_spin_unlock, noticed by Waiman (thank you). Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks powerpc/pseries: implement paravirt

...hes I previously posted here: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108170120.22331-1-will at kernel.org/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630173734.14057-1-will at kernel.org Changes since v2 include: * Actually add the barrier in READ_ONCE() for Alpha! * Implement Alpha's smp_load_acquire() using __READ_ONCE(), rather than the other way around. * Further untangling of header files * Use CONFIG_LTO instead of CONFIG_CLANG_LTO I have booted this on arm64, and build-tested as follows: - arm64 allnoconfig, defconfig (also bisected) and allmodconfig - arm32 allnoconfig, def...

Hi everyone, This is the long-awaited version two of the patches I previously posted in November last year: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108170120.22331-1-will at kernel.org/ I ended up parking the series while the READ_ONCE() implementation was being overhauled, but with that merged during the recent merge window and LTO patches being posted again [1], it was time for a refresh. The

Hi everyone, This is the long-awaited version two of the patches I previously posted in November last year: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108170120.22331-1-will at kernel.org/ I ended up parking the series while the READ_ONCE() implementation was being overhauled, but with that merged during the recent merge window and LTO patches being posted again [1], it was time for a refresh. The