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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2014-09-23 19:06:41 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-24 16:47:05 +0400
commitc55f5158f5606f8a62e694b7e009f59b92ac6258 (patch)
treef51365aca7822ecf82a03c65c919b84274ff86a2 /arch/mips
parent5bd96ab6fef66ec6b9f54134364e618fd0f8f2f3 (diff)
downloadlinux-c55f5158f5606f8a62e694b7e009f59b92ac6258.tar.xz
sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
Kirill found that there's a subtle race in the __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW code, and instead of fixing it, remove the entire exception because neither arch that uses it seems to actually still require it. Boot tested on mips64el (qemu) only. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: linux@roeck-us.net Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140923150641.GH3312@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
index 05f08438a7c4..f1df4cb4a286 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -397,12 +397,6 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p);
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCHW
#define prefetchw(x) __builtin_prefetch((x), 1, 1)
-/*
- * See Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt; prevents deadlock on SMP
- * systems.
- */
-#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
-
#endif
#endif /* _ASM_PROCESSOR_H */