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Commit 259d69b7 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/percpu-rwsem: Add down_read_preempt_disable()



Provide a down_read()/up_read() variant that keeps preemption disabled
over the whole thing, when possible.

This avoids a needless preemption point for constructs such as:

	percpu_down_read(&global_rwsem);
	spin_lock(&lock);
	...
	spin_unlock(&lock);
	percpu_up_read(&global_rwsem);

Which perturbs timings. In particular it was found to cure a
performance regression in a follow up patch in fs/locks.c

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 7c3f654d
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