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    perf tools: Provide mutex wrappers for pthreads rwlocks · 0a7c74ea
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    Andi reported a performance drop in single threaded perf tools such as
    'perf script' due to the growing number of locks being put in place to
    allow for multithreaded tools, so wrap the POSIX threads rwlock routines
    with the names used for such kinds of locks in the Linux kernel and then
    allow for tools to ask for those locks to be used or not.
    
    I.e. a tool may have a multithreaded phase and then switch to single
    threaded, like the upcoming patches for the synthesizing of
    PERF_RECORD_{FORK,MMAP,etc} for pre-existing processes to then switch to
    single threaded mode in 'perf top'.
    
    The init routines will not be conditional, this way starting as single
    threaded to then move to multi threaded mode should be possible.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404161739.GH12903@kernel.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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