[PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jun 30 02:20:57 PDT 2017
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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea at gmail.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at 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 at arm.com>
Will
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