Revision 8e3e076c5a78519a9f64cd384e8f18bc21882ce0 authored by Linus Torvalds on 11 May 2008, 03:58:02 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 11 May 2008, 03:58:02 UTC
The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7 (and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair. The latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a mess of scheduling. The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the previous commit 00b41ec2611dc98f87f30753ee00a53db648d662 'Revert "semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that never had any issues like this. This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore hack which still left a couple percentage point regression. As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that respect. We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the plan for several years. These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in particular) and Alan holds out some hope: "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked." so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action. Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kbuild
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h)
# 3) Check for missing system calls
#####
# 1) Generate bounds.h
bounds-file := include/linux/bounds.h
always := $(bounds-file)
targets := $(bounds-file) kernel/bounds.s
quiet_cmd_bounds = GEN $@
define cmd_bounds
(set -e; \
echo "#ifndef __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
echo "#define __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
echo "/*"; \
echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
echo " *"; \
echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
echo " *"; \
echo " */"; \
echo ""; \
sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
echo ""; \
echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef
# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
kernel/bounds.s: kernel/bounds.c FORCE
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)
$(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s Kbuild
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call cmd,bounds)
#####
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h
#
offsets-file := include/asm-$(SRCARCH)/asm-offsets.h
always += $(offsets-file)
targets += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s
# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
"/^->/{s:->#\(.*\):/* \1 */:; \
s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
s:->::; p;}"
endef
quiet_cmd_offsets = GEN $@
define cmd_offsets
(set -e; \
echo "#ifndef __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
echo "#define __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
echo "/*"; \
echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
echo " *"; \
echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
echo " *"; \
echo " */"; \
echo ""; \
sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
echo ""; \
echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef
# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c \
$(obj)/$(bounds-file) FORCE
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)
$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s Kbuild
$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(call cmd,offsets)
#####
# 3) Check for missing system calls
#
quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL $<
cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags)
PHONY += missing-syscalls
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh FORCE
$(call cmd,syscalls)
# Delete all targets during make clean
clean-files := $(addprefix $(objtree)/,$(targets))
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