On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 11:58:07AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:01:29PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

quoted

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 <redacted>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>

And finally applied in preparation for v2 of the patch series.

Thank you!!!

							Thanx, Paul

Regards,
Boqun

quoted

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 33 ---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 8c1b913de6d7..d256e448ea49 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h

@@ -170,39 +170,6 @@ static inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 	lock->slock = 0;
 }
 
-static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	arch_spinlock_t lock_val;
-
-	smp_mb();
-
-	/*
-	 * Atomically load and store back the lock value (unchanged). This
-	 * ensures that our observation of the lock value is ordered with
-	 * respect to other lock operations.
-	 */
-	__asm__ __volatile__(
-"1:	" PPC_LWARX(%0, 0, %2, 0) "\n"
-"	stwcx. %0, 0, %2\n"
-"	bne- 1b\n"
-	: "=&r" (lock_val), "+m" (*lock)
-	: "r" (lock)
-	: "cr0", "xer");
-
-	if (arch_spin_value_unlocked(lock_val))
-		goto out;
-
-	while (lock->slock) {
-		HMT_low();
-		if (SHARED_PROCESSOR)
-			__spin_yield(lock);
-	}
-	HMT_medium();
-
-out:
-	smp_mb();
-}
-
 /*
  * Read-write spinlocks, allowing multiple readers
  * but only one writer.

-- 
2.5.2