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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h index b1479fd..87c0449 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mutex.h @@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ #define _ASM_MUTEX_H /* * On pre-ARMv6 hardware this results in a swp-based implementation, - * which is the most efficient. For ARMv6+, we emit a pair of exclusive - * accesses instead. + * which is the most efficient. For ARMv6+, we have exclusive memory + * accessors and use atomic_dec to avoid the extra xchg operations + * on the locking slowpaths. */ +#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6 #include <asm-generic/mutex-xchg.h> +#else +#include <asm-generic/mutex-dec.h> #endif +#endif /* _ASM_MUTEX_H */ |
