Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

05 Jun, 2014

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  • 9161f5409   locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite ... Browse Code »

    Our mutexes have gone a long ways since the original
    implementation back in 2005/2006. However, the mutex-design.txt
    document is still stuck in the past, to the point where most of
    the information there is practically useless and, more
    important, simply incorrect. This patch pretty much rewrites it
    to resemble what we have nowadays.

    Since regular semaphores are almost much extinct in the kernel
    (most users now rely on mutexes or rwsems), it no longer makes
    sense to have such a close comparison, which was copied from
    most of the cover letter when Ingo introduced the generic mutex
    subsystem.

    Note that ww_mutexes are intentionally left out, leaving things
    as generic as possible.

    Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
    Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
    Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
    Cc: waiman.long@hp.com
    Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
    Cc: aswin@hp.com
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401338203.2618.11.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Davidlohr Bueso
     

11 Nov, 2013

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  • 67a6de49b   locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c ... Browse Code »

    Fix this docbook error:

    >> docproc: kernel/mutex.c: No such file or directory

    by updating the stale references to kernel/mutex.c.

    Reported-by: fengguang.wu@intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-34pikw1tlsskj65rrt5iusrq@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

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