Re: [PATCH -tip/master 5/7] locking/mutex: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate

[Jason Low]

On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 22:18 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 4badad35 (locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some
> architectures) added a ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW flag to
> disable the mutex optimistic feature on specific archs.
> 
> Because CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER only depended on DEBUG and
> SMP, it was ok to have the ->owner field conditional a bit
> flexible. However by adding a new variable to the matter,
> we can waste space with the unused field, ie: CONFIG_SMP &&
> (!CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER && !CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>

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