x86/paravirt: Trace contended_release on unlock

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On PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y kernels queued_spin_unlock() is dispatched
through a static_call(). Those PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y kernels are quite
popular. Gating contended_release behind a static branch would leave a
NOP on the unlock hot path even, when the tracepoint is disabled.

Since the static_call() is already present, swap its target to a traced
unlock, when the tracepoint is enabled instead. When contended_release
tracepoint is disabled the target is the plain unlock (an inline store
on native x86_64), so the unlock path is unchanged and the tracepoint is
truly zero-cost.

Provide two traced variants, native_queued_spin_unlock_traced() and
pv_queued_spin_unlock_traced(), so each tail-calls its own base unlock
directly rather than recursing through the now-traced static_call().

Teach pv_is_native_spin_unlock() that the traced native variant still
counts as native.

Only PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y is affected. PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=n keeps the
generic static-branch path.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/17fa67f9fa4cf93f1150725e89f5f916e41a9b6f.1785778551.git.d@ilvokhin.com

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Dmitry Ilvokhin 2026-08-04 07:15:45 +00:00 • committed by Peter Zijlstra

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arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt-spinlock.h

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arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c

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