Merge branch 'lockref' (locked reference counts)

Merge lockref infrastructure code by me and Waiman Long.

I already merged some of the preparatory patches that didn't actually do
any semantic changes earlier, but this merges the actual _reason_ for
those preparatory patches.

The "lockref" structure is a combination "spinlock and reference count"
that allows optimized reference count accesses.  In particular, it
guarantees that the reference count will be updated AS IF the spinlock
was held, but using atomic accesses that cover both the reference count
and the spinlock words, we can often do the update without actually
having to take the lock.

This allows us to avoid the nastiest cases of spinlock contention on
large machines under heavy pathname lookup loads.  When updating the
dentry reference counts on a large system, we'll still end up with the
cache line bouncing around, but that's much less noticeable than
actually having to spin waiting for the lock.

* lockref:
  lockref: implement lockless reference count updates using cmpxchg()
  lockref: uninline lockref helper functions
  vfs: reimplement d_rcu_to_refcount() using lockref_get_or_lock()
  vfs: use lockref_get_not_zero() for optimistic lockless dget_parent()
  lockref: add 'lockref_get_or_lock() helper

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b32ebf9..67e0074 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ config X86_64
 	def_bool y
 	depends on 64BIT
 	select X86_DEV_DMA_OPS
+	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
 
 ### Arch settings
 config X86
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index e3ddd7d..e0e6684 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
 # define UNLOCK_LOCK_PREFIX
 #endif
 
+static __always_inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
+{
+	return lock.tickets.head == lock.tickets.tail;
+}
+
 /*
  * Ticket locks are conceptually two parts, one indicating the current head of
  * the queue, and the other indicating the current tail. The lock is acquired