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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: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.