* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 09:18 -0700, tip-bot for Shai Fultheim wrote:
>
> > [ I absolutely hate these locking patterns ... yet I have no better idea. Maybe the gents on Cc: ... ]
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Oh yuck, this is vile..
>
> static struct static_key scale_mp_trainwreck = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
>
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(_cpa_lock);
>
> static inline void cpa_lock(void)
> {
> if (static_key_false(&scale_mp_trainwreck))
> return;
>
> spin_lock(&_cpa_lock);
> }
>
> static inline void cpa_unlock(void)
> {
> if (static_key_false(&scale_mp_trainwreck))
> return;
>
> spin_lock(&_cpa_lock);
> }
>
> And then use cpa_{,un}lock(), and the scale-mp guys can
> static_key_slow_inc(&scale_mp_trainwreck).
>
> [ and yes I hate those jump_label names ... but I'm not wanting
> to go through another round of bike-shed painting. ]
ok.
Another problem this patch has is inadequate testing:
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:798:2: error: implicit declaration of
function ‘is_vsmp_box’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
So I'm removing it from tip:x86/mm for now.
Thanks,
Ingo
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