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2014-06-05	locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite	Davidlohr Bueso	1	-117/+135
	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 <davidlohr@hp.com> 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401338203.2618.11.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-11	locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c	Peter Zijlstra	1	-5/+5
	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 <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-34pikw1tlsskj65rrt5iusrq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2010-09-03	mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook	Randy Dunlap	1	-1/+2
	Fix kernel-doc notation in linux/mutex.h and kernel/mutex.c, then add these 2 files to the kernel-locking docbook as the Mutex API reference chapter. Add one API function to mutex-design.txt and correct a typo in that file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <20100902154816.6cc2f9ad.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-03	Rename .text.lock to .text..lock.	Denys Vlasenko	1	-2/+2
	Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2007-10-20	Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs	Robert P. J. Day	1	-1/+3
	Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-17	Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers	Matti Linnanvuori	1	-1/+2
	Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-01-09	[PATCH] mutex subsystem, documentation	Ingo Molnar	1	-0/+135
	Add mutex design related documentation. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>