percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers
This patch introduces new barrier pair light_mb() and heavy_mb() for percpu rw semaphores. This patch fixes a bug in percpu-rw-semaphores where a barrier was missing in percpu_up_write. This patch improves performance on the read path of percpu-rw-semaphores: on non-x86 cpus, there was a smp_mb() in percpu_up_read. This patch changes it to a compiler barrier and removes the "#if defined(X86) ..." condition. From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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