locking/paravirt: Use new static key for controlling call of virt_spin_lock()

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There are cases where a guest tries to switch spinlocks to bare metal
behavior (e.g. by setting "xen_nopvspin" boot parameter). Today this
has the downside of falling back to unfair test and set scheme for
qspinlocks due to virt_spin_lock() detecting the virtualized
environment.

Add a static key controlling whether virt_spin_lock() should be
called or not. When running on bare metal set the new key to false.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170906173625.18158-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Juergen Gross 2017-09-06 19:36:24 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h

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arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c

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arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

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