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author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2019-05-17 13:52:34 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-05-24 09:00:11 +0200 |
commit | 5322ea58a06da2e69c5ef36a9b4d4b9255edd423 (patch) | |
tree | 3d40eddd863065f3c365fb938880196c6645da3a /kernel/compat.c | |
parent | 4d839dd9e4356bbacf3eb0ab13a549b83b008c21 (diff) |
perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting
While the IRQ/NMI will nest, the nest-count will be invariant over the
actual exception, since it will decrement equal to increment.
This means we can -- carefully -- use a regular variable since the
typical LOAD-STORE race doesn't exist (similar to preempt_count).
This optimizes the ring-buffer for all LOAD-STORE architectures, since
they need to use atomic ops to implement local_t.
Suggested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: yabinc@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517115418.481392777@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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