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[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for powerpc

Powerpc already has a directed yield for CONFIG_PREEMPT="n". To make it
work with CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" as well the _raw_{spin,read,write}_relax
primitives need to be defined to call __spin_yield() for spinlocks and
__rw_yield() for rw-locks.

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Martin Schwidefsky and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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include/asm-powerpc/spinlock.h
··· 285 285 rw->lock = 0; 286 286 } 287 287 288 - #define _raw_spin_relax(lock) cpu_relax() 289 - #define _raw_read_relax(lock) cpu_relax() 290 - #define _raw_write_relax(lock) cpu_relax() 288 + #define _raw_spin_relax(lock) __spin_yield(lock) 289 + #define _raw_read_relax(lock) __rw_yield(lock) 290 + #define _raw_write_relax(lock) __rw_yield(lock) 291 291 292 292 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ 293 293 #endif /* __ASM_SPINLOCK_H */