linux/kernel
Ingo Molnar f704f56af9 [PATCH] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too
The only sane way to clean up the current 3 lock_kernel() variants seems to
be to remove the spinlock-based BKL implementations altogether, and to keep
the semaphore-based one only.  If we dont want to do that for whatever
reason then i'm afraid we have to live with the current complexity.  (but
i'm open for other cleanup suggestions as well.)

To explore this possibility we'll (at a minimum) have to know whether the
semaphore-based BKL works fine on plain SMP too.  The patch below enables
this.

The patch may make sense in isolation as well, as it might bring
performance benefits: code that would formerly spin on the BKL spinlock
will now schedule away and give up the CPU.  It might introduce performance
regressions as well, if any performance-critical code uses the BKL heavily
and gets overscheduled due to the semaphore.  I very much hope there is no
such performance-critical codepath left though.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
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irq [PATCH] make various thing static 2005-06-24 00:06:43 -07:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: only allow it when it makes sense 2005-06-25 16:24:34 -07:00
acct.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
audit.c AUDIT: Unify auid reporting, put arch before syscall number 2005-05-23 21:35:28 +01:00
auditsc.c AUDIT: Record working directory when syscall arguments are pathnames 2005-05-27 12:17:28 +01:00
capability.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] Fix get_compat_sigevent() 2005-04-16 15:24:01 -07:00
configs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cpu.c [PATCH] i386 CPU hotplug 2005-06-25 16:24:29 -07:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: cpuset changes 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
dma.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exec_domain.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] Optimize sys_times for a single thread process 2005-06-23 09:45:30 -07:00
extable.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] sched: consolidate sbe sbf 2005-06-25 16:24:44 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal() 2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
intermodule.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] setitimer timer expires too early 2005-05-05 16:36:41 -07:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms. 2005-05-05 16:36:31 -07:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kfifo.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper() 2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] jprobes: allow a jprobe to coexist with muliple kprobes 2005-06-23 09:45:25 -07:00
ksysfs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kthread.c [PATCH] use smp_mb/wmb/rmb where possible 2005-05-01 08:58:47 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] ppc64: remove hidden -fno-omit-frame-pointer for schedule.c 2005-05-05 16:36:32 -07:00
module.c [PATCH] make various thing static 2005-06-24 00:06:43 -07:00
panic.c [SPARC]: Stop-A printk cleanup 2005-04-24 20:38:02 -07:00
params.c [PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIO 2005-06-20 15:15:03 -07:00
pid.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers: use try_to_del_timer_sync() 2005-06-23 09:45:17 -07:00
printk.c [PATCH] CPU hotplug printk fix 2005-06-25 16:24:34 -07:00
profile.c [PATCH] profile.c: `schedule' parsing fix 2005-05-17 07:59:21 -07:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal() 2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement 2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
resource.c [PATCH] pci enumeration on ixp2000: overflow in kernel/resource.c 2005-04-16 15:25:58 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: sched changes 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] Software suspend and recalc sigpending bug fix 2005-06-23 09:45:27 -07:00
softirq.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] spin_unlock_bh() and preempt_check_resched() 2005-05-21 10:46:48 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup 2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] VM: early zone reclaim 2005-06-21 18:46:14 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] properly stop devices before poweroff 2005-06-25 16:24:33 -07:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] setuid core dump 2005-06-23 09:45:26 -07:00
time.c [PATCH] time interpolator: Fix settimeofday inaccuracy 2005-04-28 08:13:58 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] preempt_count is int - remove cast and don't assign to unsigned type 2005-06-23 09:45:19 -07:00
uid16.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
user.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
wait.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue 2005-04-16 15:23:59 -07:00