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* [PATCH RFC 09/26] alpha: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
       [not found] <20170629235918.GA6445@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
@ 2017-06-30  0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
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From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2017-06-30  0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: netfilter-devel, netdev, oleg, akpm, mingo, dave, manfred, tj,
	arnd, linux-arch, will.deacon, peterz, stern, parri.andrea,
	torvalds, Paul E. McKenney, Richard Henderson, Ivan Kokshaysky,
	Matt Turner, linux-alpha

There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair.  This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific
arch_spin_unlock_wait().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 arch/alpha/include/asm/spinlock.h | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/spinlock.h
index a40b9fc0c6c3..718ac0b64adf 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@
 #define arch_spin_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_spin_lock(lock)
 #define arch_spin_is_locked(x)	((x)->lock != 0)
 
-static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	smp_cond_load_acquire(&lock->lock, !VAL);
-}
-
 static inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
 {
         return lock.lock == 0;
-- 
2.5.2


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