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We ripped out PV and virtualization related bits from rqspinlock in an earlier commit, however, a fair lock performs poorly within a virtual machine when the lock holder is preempted. As such, retain the virt_spin_lock fallback to test and set lock, but with timeout and deadlock detection. We can do this by simply depending on the resilient_tas_spin_lock implementation from the previous patch. We don't integrate support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS yet, as that requires more involved algorithmic changes and introduces more complexity. It can be done when the need arises in the future. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-15-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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