From: Andreas Mohr Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:11:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: i386: add cpu_relax() to cmos_lock() X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~31941 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=267eb01a62b1190d0bf87b1ef3b0c9d21cdb2c57;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git i386: add cpu_relax() to cmos_lock() Add cpu_relax() to cmos_lock() inline function for faster operation on SMT CPUs and less power consumption on others in case of lock contention (which probably doesn't happen too often, so admittedly this patch is not too exciting). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Include the header file for cpu_relax()] Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h b/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h index 99a8900..1613b42 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/mc146818rtc.h @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include #include +#include #include #ifndef RTC_PORT @@ -43,8 +44,10 @@ static inline void lock_cmos(unsigned char reg) unsigned long new; new = ((smp_processor_id()+1) << 8) | reg; for (;;) { - if (cmos_lock) + if (cmos_lock) { + cpu_relax(); continue; + } if (__cmpxchg(&cmos_lock, 0, new, sizeof(cmos_lock)) == 0) return; }