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    s390/delay: simplify udelay · dd6cfe55
    Heiko Carstens authored
    udelay is implemented by using quite subtle details to make it
    possible to load an idle psw and waiting for an interrupt even in irq
    context or when interrupts are disabled. Also handling (or better: no
    handling) of softirqs is taken into account.
    
    All this is done to optimize for something which should in normal
    circumstances never happen: calling udelay to busy wait. Therefore get
    rid of the whole complexity and just busy loop like other
    architectures are doing it also.
    
    It could have been possible to use diag 0x44 instead of cpu_relax() in
    the busy loop, however we have seen too many bad things happen with
    diag 0x44 that it seems to be better to simply busy loop.
    
    Also note that with this new implementation kernel preemption does
    work when within the udelay loop. This did not work before.
    
    To get a feeling what the former code optimizes for: IPL'ing a kernel
    with 'defconfig' and afterwards compiling a kernel ends with a total
    of zero udelay calls.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
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