Update Linux to v5.10.109
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Change-Id: I19bca9fc6762d4e63bcf3e4cba88bbe560d9c76c
Signed-off-by: Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez@arm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 2473f10..cbff6ba 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -31,14 +31,15 @@
/*
* The basic principle of a queue-based spinlock can best be understood
* by studying a classic queue-based spinlock implementation called the
- * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind
- * of lock.
+ * MCS lock. A copy of the original MCS lock paper ("Algorithms for Scalable
+ * Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors by Mellor-Crummey and
+ * Scott") is available at
*
- * http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf
+ * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206115
*
- * This queued spinlock implementation is based on the MCS lock, however to make
- * it fit the 4 bytes we assume spinlock_t to be, and preserve its existing
- * API, we must modify it somehow.
+ * This queued spinlock implementation is based on the MCS lock, however to
+ * make it fit the 4 bytes we assume spinlock_t to be, and preserve its
+ * existing API, we must modify it somehow.
*
* In particular; where the traditional MCS lock consists of a tail pointer
* (8 bytes) and needs the next pointer (another 8 bytes) of its own node to
@@ -580,4 +581,11 @@
#include "qspinlock_paravirt.h"
#include "qspinlock.c"
+bool nopvspin __initdata;
+static __init int parse_nopvspin(char *arg)
+{
+ nopvspin = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nopvspin", parse_nopvspin);
#endif