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[RFC,11/26] arm: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions

Message ID 1498780894-8253-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
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Paul E. McKenney June 30, 2017, 12:01 a.m. UTC 
There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair.  This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific
arch_spin_unlock_wait().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h | 16 ----------------
 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 4bec45442072..c030143c18c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -52,22 +52,6 @@  static inline void dsb_sev(void)
  * memory.
  */
 
-static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	u16 owner = READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.owner);
-
-	for (;;) {
-		arch_spinlock_t tmp = READ_ONCE(*lock);
-
-		if (tmp.tickets.owner == tmp.tickets.next ||
-		    tmp.tickets.owner != owner)
-			break;
-
-		wfe();
-	}
-	smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep();
-}
-
 #define arch_spin_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_spin_lock(lock)
 
 static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)