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Revision 2dc91abe03d8ce6dd7f9251faffafca5f6b9e85d authored by Nick Piggin on 17 August 2010, 18:37:37 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 18 August 2010, 12:35:48 UTC 
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
 
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks

This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:

- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
  another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
  very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
  very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).

Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.

Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Tip revision: 2dc91abe03d8ce6dd7f9251faffafca5f6b9e85d authored by Nick Piggin on 17 August 2010, 18:37:37 UTC
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
Tip revision: 2dc91ab
builtin.h 
#ifndef BUILTIN_H
#define BUILTIN_H

#include "util/util.h"
#include "util/strbuf.h"

extern const char perf_version_string[];
extern const char perf_usage_string[];
extern const char perf_more_info_string[];

extern void list_common_cmds_help(void);
extern const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
extern void prune_packed_objects(int);
extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file);
extern int check_pager_config(const char *cmd);

extern int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_bench(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_buildid_cache(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_buildid_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_sched(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_timechart(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_kmem(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_lock(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_kvm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_test(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
extern int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);

#endif
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