Re: [PATCH 08/13] locking/qspinlock: stop renaming queued_spin_lock_slowpath to native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 13:30:10 EST


On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 12:38:15AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The native version can simply be queued_spin_lock_slowpath, and the
> paravirt version __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath, which is as they are
> named in the C code.
>

Humm... so it is the x86 paravirt convention to have native_*()
functions for everthing, which sometimes are unconditionally called
whenever the paravirt indirection is unwarranted etc..

I suppose that's not the case with the spinlock code thouhg, so yeah,
why not.