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Commit da044747 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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tasklets: Replace spin wait in tasklet_unlock_wait()



tasklet_unlock_wait() spin waits for TASKLET_STATE_RUN to be cleared. This
is wasting CPU cycles in a tight loop which is especially painful in a
guest when the CPU running the tasklet is scheduled out.

tasklet_unlock_wait() is invoked from tasklet_kill() which is used in
teardown paths and not performance critical at all. Replace the spin wait
with wait_var_event().

There are no users of tasklet_unlock_wait() which are invoked from atomic
contexts. The usage in tasklet_disable() has been replaced temporarily with
the spin waiting variant until the atomic users are fixed up and will be
converted to the sleep wait variant later.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309084241.783936921@linutronix.de
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