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Matthew Wilcox
78305de2f9 Remove mention of semaphores from kernel-locking
Since the consensus seems to be to eliminate semaphores where possible,
we shouldn't be educating people about how to use them as locks.  Use
mutexes instead.  Semaphores should be described in a separate document
if we end up keeping them.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-24 08:29:40 -04:00
Matti Linnanvuori
4d2e7d0d77 doc: add a chapter about trylock functions [Bug 9011]
Add a chapter about trylock functions.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9011

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed down_trylock)
2008-05-23 13:09:34 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
e9b62693ae Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
  DOC:  A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
  Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
  fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
  ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
  DOCUMENTATION:  Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
  KEYS:  Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
  RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
  DMA engine: typo fixes
  Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
  MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
  MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
c0d1f29534 DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-21 22:44:50 +00:00
Matthew Wilcox
6188e10d38 Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
Daniel Walker
66656ebb5b docs: kernel-locking: Convert semaphore references
I converted some of the document to reflect mutex usage instead of
semaphore usage.  Since we shouldin't be promoting semaphore usage when
it's on it's way out..

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:07 -08:00
Linus Nilsson
e3202262ec DocBook: Change a headline in kernel-locking to list all three main types of locking.
Change a headline to reflect that there are three main types of kernel
locking, not two.

Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:49:53 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
621e59a771 docbook: make kernel-locking table readable
Andi Kleen pointed out to me that the kernel locking cheat sheet
table entries are unreadable.

Make table entries smaller so that pdf and ps output is readable
(columns were being overwritten and garbled) by using abbreviations.
This allows the tables to fit on one page cleanly.
Add a Legend for the abbreviations:
  SLIS: spin_lock_irqsave
  SLI:  spin_lock_irq
  SL:   spin_lock
  SLBH: spin_lock_bh
  DI:   down_interruptible

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
olecom@mail.ru
2e2d0dcc1b typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26 19:05:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f3f54ffa70 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, documentation
Add mutex design related documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00