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authorAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>2007-07-21 15:11:25 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-22 01:37:13 (GMT)
commit267eb01a62b1190d0bf87b1ef3b0c9d21cdb2c57 (patch)
tree1b2ad3b7e510c44d44ab33bdbc7c6ff3f99ab496
parent8f03d6ce4ee20e7521b69188f6b5a9bb9ba7457f (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-267eb01a62b1190d0bf87b1ef3b0c9d21cdb2c57.tar.xz
i386: add cpu_relax() to cmos_lock()
Add cpu_relax() to cmos_lock() inline function for faster operation on SMT CPUs and less power consumption on others in case of lock contention (which probably doesn't happen too often, so admittedly this patch is not too exciting). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Include the header file for cpu_relax()] Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h b/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h
index 99a8900..1613b42 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
#ifndef RTC_PORT
@@ -43,8 +44,10 @@ static inline void lock_cmos(unsigned char reg)
unsigned long new;
new = ((smp_processor_id()+1) << 8) | reg;
for (;;) {
- if (cmos_lock)
+ if (cmos_lock) {
+ cpu_relax();
continue;
+ }
if (__cmpxchg(&cmos_lock, 0, new, sizeof(cmos_lock)) == 0)
return;
}