On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 05:00:16PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > Currently, we have two different implementation of rwsem: > 1) CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK (rwsem-spinlock.c) > 2) CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM (rwsem-xadd.c) > > As we are going to use a single generic implementation for rwsem-xadd.c > and no architecture-specific code will be needed, there is no point > in keeping two different implementations of rwsem. In most cases, the > performance of rwsem-spinlock.c will be worse. It also doesn't get all > the performance tuning and optimizations that had been implemented in > rwsem-xadd.c over the years. > > For simplication, we are going to remove rwsem-spinlock.c and make all > architectures use a single implementation of rwsem - rwsem-xadd.c. > > All references to RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK and RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM > in the code are removed. > > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/alpha/Kconfig | 7 - > arch/arc/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/arm/Kconfig | 4 - > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/c6x/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/csky/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/h8300/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/hexagon/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/ia64/Kconfig | 4 - > arch/m68k/Kconfig | 7 - > arch/microblaze/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/mips/Kconfig | 7 - > arch/nds32/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/nios2/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/openrisc/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/parisc/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 7 - > arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/s390/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/sh/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/sparc/Kconfig | 8 - > arch/unicore32/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 - > arch/x86/um/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/xtensa/Kconfig | 3 - > include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h | 47 ------ > include/linux/rwsem.h | 5 - > kernel/Kconfig.locks | 2 +- > kernel/locking/Makefile | 4 +- > kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 339 ---------------------------------------- > kernel/locking/rwsem.h | 3 - > 31 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 520 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h > delete mode 100644 kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c Another nice cleanup, and it looks like the optimistic spinning in the xadd implementation is predicated on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW, so we're all good there too. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Will