locking/barriers: Introduce smp_cond_load_relaxed() and atomic_cond_read_relaxed()
Whilst we currently provide smp_cond_load_acquire() and atomic_cond_read_acquire(), there are cases where the ACQUIRE semantics are not required because of a subsequent fence or release operation once the conditional loop has exited. This patch adds relaxed versions of the conditional spinning primitives to avoid unnecessary barrier overhead on architectures such as arm64. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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