From 41719b03091911028116155deddc5eedf8c45e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:36:26 +0100 Subject: mutex: preemption fixes The problem is that dropping the spinlock right before schedule is a voluntary preemption point and can cause a schedule, right after which we schedule again. Fix this inefficiency by keeping preemption disabled until we schedule, do this by explicity disabling preemption and providing a schedule() variant that assumes preemption is already disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4cae9b81a1f..9f0b372cfa6 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ extern signed long schedule_timeout(signed long timeout); extern signed long schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout); extern signed long schedule_timeout_killable(signed long timeout); extern signed long schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout); +asmlinkage void __schedule(void); asmlinkage void schedule(void); struct nsproxy; -- cgit v1.2.2