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    locking/percpu-rwsem: Add down_read_preempt_disable() · 259d69b7
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    Provide a down_read()/up_read() variant that keeps preemption disabled
    over the whole thing, when possible.
    
    This avoids a needless preemption point for constructs such as:
    
    	percpu_down_read(&global_rwsem);
    	spin_lock(&lock);
    	...
    	spin_unlock(&lock);
    	percpu_up_read(&global_rwsem);
    
    Which perturbs timings. In particular it was found to cure a
    performance regression in a follow up patch in fs/locks.c
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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