commit 2dc91abe03d8ce6dd7f9251faffafca5f6b9e85d
author Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Wed Aug 18 04:37:37 2010 +1000
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Wed Aug 18 08:35:48 2010 -0400
tree 1712fcb512310a80a7d2c7f92b30ce91750efaf1
parent d996b62a8df1d935b01319bf8defb95b5709f7b8

lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks

lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks

This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:

- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
  another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
  very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
  very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).

Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.

Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>