[PATCH] out-of-line locks / generic
This patch achieves out of line spinlocks by creating kernel/spinlock.c and using the _raw_* inline locking functions. Now, as much as this is supposed to be arch agnostic, there was still a fair amount of rummaging about in archs, mostly for the cases where the arch already has out of line locks and i wanted to avoid the extra call, saving that extra call also makes lock profiling easier. PPC32/64 was an example of such an arch and i have added the necessary profile_pc() function as an example. Size differences are with CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled since we wanted to determine how much could be saved by moving that lot out of line too. ppc64 = 259897 bytes: text data bss dec hex filename 5489808 1962724 709064 8161596 7c893c vmlinux-after 5749577 1962852 709064 8421493 808075 vmlinux-before sparc64 = 193368 bytes: text data bss dec hex filename 3472037 633712 308920 4414669 435ccd vmlinux-after 3665285 633832 308920 4608037 465025 vmlinux-before i386 = 416075 bytes text data bss dec hex filename 5808371 867442 326864 7002677 6ada35 vmlinux-after 6221254 870634 326864 7418752 713380 vmlinux-before x86-64 = 282446 bytes text data bss dec hex filename 4598025 1450644 523632 6572301 64490d vmlinux-after 4881679 1449436 523632 6854747 68985b vmlinux-before It has been compile tested (UP, SMP, PREEMPT) on i386, x86-64, sparc, sparc64, ppc64, ppc32 and runtime tested on i386, x86-64 and sparc64. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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