[PATCH] ARM: Don't enable GENERIC_LOCKBREAK with ticket spinlocks

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Aug 03 2012 - 18:42:38 EST


Now that ARM has implemented its spinlocks with tickets we don't
need to use the generic lockbreak algorithm. Remove the Kconfig
from ARM so that we use the arch_spin_is_contended() definition
from the asm header. This also saves a word in each lock because
we don't need the break_lock member anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

It seems we define the arch_spin_is_contended() macro but we don't
use it on SMP && PREEMPT kernels?

arch/arm/Kconfig | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index e91c7cd..e4191cc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -126,11 +126,6 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
bool
default y

-config GENERIC_LOCKBREAK
- bool
- default y
- depends on SMP && PREEMPT
-
config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
bool
default y
--
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