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smp_cond_load_acquire() provides a way to spin on a variable with acquire semantics until some conditional expression involving the variable is satisfied. Architectures such as arm64 can potentially enter a low-power state, waking up only when the value of the variable changes, which reduces the system impact of tight polling loops. This patch makes the same interface available to users of atomic_t, atomic64_t and atomic_long_t, rather than require messy accesses to the structure internals. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.