From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:20:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170630092057.GD9726@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498780894-8253-12-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:01:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
> 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/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 58 ++++-----------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
I'm going to miss this code.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
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[not found] <20170629235918.GA6445@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 11/26] arm: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 9:20 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2017-06-30 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
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