Zhongqiu Han 06dcadb784 sched: idle: Optimize the generic idle loop by removing needless memory barrier
The memory barrier rmb() in generic idle loop do_idle() function is not
needed, it doesn't order any load instruction, just remove it as needless
rmb() can cause performance impact.

The rmb() was introduced by the tglx/history.git commit f2f1b44c75c4
("[PATCH] Remove RCU abuse in cpu_idle()") to order the loads between
cpu_idle_map and pm_idle. It pairs with wmb() in function cpu_idle_wait().

And then with the removal of cpu_idle_state in function cpu_idle() and
wmb() in function cpu_idle_wait() in commit 783e391b7b5b ("x86: Simplify
cpu_idle_wait"), rmb() no longer has a reason to exist.

After that, commit d16699123434 ("idle: Implement generic idle function")
implemented a generic idle function cpu_idle_loop() which resembles the
functionality found in arch/. And it retained the rmb() in generic idle
loop in file kernel/cpu/idle.c.

And at last, commit cf37b6b48428 ("sched/idle: Move cpu/idle.c to
sched/idle.c") moved cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c. And commit c1de45ca831a
("sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle") renamed function
cpu_idle_loop() to do_idle().

History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: Zhongqiu Han <quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241009093745.9504-1-quic_zhonhan@quicinc.com
Change-Id: I7a57f4796f2ab451b14290de2f7e6255823a928d
Signed-off-by: Richard Raya <rdxzv.dev@gmail.com>
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Linux kernel
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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
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