[PATCH] powerpc: Export __spin_yield
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Mar 30 21:57:48 AEDT 2015
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 12:17 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 05:23:53PM -0600, Suresh E. Warrier wrote:
> >> Export __spin_yield so that the arch_spin_unlock() function can
> >> be invoked from a module. This will be required for modules where
> >> we want to take a lock that is also is acquired in hypervisor
> >> real mode. Because we want to avoid running any lockdep code
> >> (which may not be safe in real mode), this lock needs to be
> >> an arch_spinlock_t instead of a normal spinlock.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>
> Something went wrong when applying this, as it ended up as:
Ugh, weird. I must have fucked up something when rebasing. I don't
want to rebase that branch now that it's out, I know of at least one
series based on it. We'll live with it.
> commit 1f8c82ab1b0bc7e24601c0fca411fd27b9c883ef
> Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> Date: Wed Mar 4 12:56:20 2015 +0100
>
> cpufreq/ppc: Add missing #include <asm/smp.h>
>
> If CONFIG_SMP=n, <linux/smp.h> does not include <asm/smp.h>, causing:
>
> drivers/cpufreq/ppc-corenet-cpufreq.c: In function 'corenet_cpufreq_cpu_init
> drivers/cpufreq/ppc-corenet-cpufreq.c:173:3: error: implicit declaration of
> X-Patchwork-Id: 443703
> Message-Id: <54EE5989.7010800 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:23:53 -0600
>
> Export __spin_yield so that the arch_spin_unlock() function can
> be invoked from a module. This will be required for modules where
> we want to take a lock that is also is acquired in hypervisor
> real mode. Because we want to avoid running any lockdep code
> (which may not be safe in real mode), this lock needs to be
> an arch_spinlock_t instead of a normal spinlock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Warrier <warrier at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
>
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