On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:19:22AM -0500, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> pSeries/powerNV will use qspinlock from now on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui....@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig 
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
> index bec90fb..8a87d06 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig

Why here? Not arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig?

> @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ config PPC_PSERIES
>       select PPC_DOORBELL
>       default y
>  
> +config ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
> +     default y
> +     bool "Enable qspinlock"

I think you just enable qspinlock by default for all PPC platforms. I
guess you need to put

        depends on PPC_PSERIES || PPC_POWERNV

here to achieve what you mean in you commit message.

Regards,
Boqun

> +     help
> +       Enabling this option will let kernel use qspinlock which is a kind of
> +       fairlock.  It has shown a good performance improvement on x86 and 
> also ppc
> +       especially in high contention cases.
> +
>  config PPC_SPLPAR
>       depends on PPC_PSERIES
>       bool "Support for shared-processor logical partitions"
> -- 
> 2.4.11
> 

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