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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h16
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h4
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock.c2
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h
index 9d51fae1cba3..8dde3bdc4a05 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h
@@ -39,15 +39,23 @@ static inline void queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
}
#endif
-#define virt_queued_spin_lock virt_queued_spin_lock
+#define virt_spin_lock virt_spin_lock
-static inline bool virt_queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
return false;
- while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0)
- cpu_relax();
+ /*
+ * On hypervisors without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS support we fall
+ * back to a Test-and-Set spinlock, because fair locks have
+ * horrible lock 'holder' preemption issues.
+ */
+
+ do {
+ while (atomic_read(&lock->val) != 0)
+ cpu_relax();
+ } while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) != 0);
return true;
}
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
index 83bfb87f5bf1..e2aadbc7151f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static inline void queued_spin_unlock_wait(struct qspinlock *lock)
cpu_relax();
}
-#ifndef virt_queued_spin_lock
-static __always_inline bool virt_queued_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
+#ifndef virt_spin_lock
+static __always_inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
return false;
}
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 337c8818541d..87e9ce6a63c5 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
if (pv_enabled())
goto queue;
- if (virt_queued_spin_lock(lock))
+ if (virt_spin_lock(lock))
return;
/*