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