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We want to move away from using SMT priority updates for cpu_relax, and use a 'wait' instruction which is similar to x86. As well as being a much better fit for what everybody else uses and tests with, priority nops are stateful which is nasty (interrupts have to consider they might be taken at a different priority), and they're expensive to execute, similar to a mtSPR which can effect other threads in the pipe. This has shown to give results that are less affected by code alignment on benchmarks that cause a lot of spin waiting (e.g., rwsem contention on unixbench filesystem benchmarks) on POWER10. QEMU TCG only supports this instruction correctly since v7.1, versions without the fix may cause hangs whne running POWER10 CPUs. Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix checkpatch warnings RE the macros] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220920122259.363092-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.