locking/mutex: Allow next waiter lockless wakeup
Make use of wake-queues and enable the wakeup to occur after releasing the wait_lock. This is similar to what we do with rtmutex top waiter, slightly shortening the critical region and allow other waiters to acquire the wait_lock sooner. In low contention cases it can also help the recently woken waiter to find the wait_lock available (fastpath) when it continues execution. Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160125022343.GA3322@linux-uzut.siteSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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