Commit 31a7c474 authored by Manfred Spraul's avatar Manfred Spraul Committed by Linus Torvalds

ipc/sem.c: cacheline align the ipc spinlock for semaphores

Cacheline align the spinlock for sysv semaphores.  Without the patch, the
spinlock and sem_otime [written by every semop that modified the array]
and sem_base [read in the hot path of try_atomic_semop()] can be in the
same cacheline.
Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0a2b9d4c
......@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct seminfo {
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/cache.h>
struct task_struct;
......@@ -91,7 +92,8 @@ struct sem {
/* One sem_array data structure for each set of semaphores in the system. */
struct sem_array {
struct kern_ipc_perm sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
struct kern_ipc_perm ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
time_t sem_otime; /* last semop time */
time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
......
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