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2014-12-08locking/lglocks: Add documentation of current lglocks implementationNicholas Mc Guire1-0/+166
Local/global locks are currently not documented anywhere other than in an somewhat out-of-date LWN article - this is an attempt to document the current state of lglocks. This patch is against linux-next 3.18.0-rc6 Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Carsten Emde <c.emde@osadl.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141208083326.GA29895@opentech.at Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>