linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2008-06-20	Add cycle_kernel_lock()	Jonathan Corbet	1	-0/+13
	A number of driver functions are so obviously trivial that they do not need the big kernel lock - at least not overtly. It turns out that the acquisition of the BKL in driver open() functions can perform a sort of poor-hacker's serialization function, delaying the open operation until the driver is certain to have completed its initialization. Add a simple cycle_kernel_lock() function for these cases to make it clear that there is no need to hold the BKL, just to be sure that we can acquire it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-01-25	sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code	Ingo Molnar	1	-13/+1
	remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code. this removes 160 lines of legacy code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-16	Remove unnecessary includes of spinlock.h under include/linux	Robert P. J. Day	1	-1/+0
	Remove the obviously unnecessary includes of <linux/spinlock.h> under the include/linux/ directory, and fix the couple errors that are introduced as a result of that. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-04-26	Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/	David Woodhouse	1	-1/+0
	Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-11-13	[PATCH] m68k: thread_info header cleanup	Al Viro	1	-2/+1
	a) in smp_lock.h #include of sched.h and spinlock.h moved under #ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL. b) interrupt.h now explicitly pulls sched.h (not via smp_lock.h from hardirq.h as it used to) c) in three more places we need changes to compensate for (a) - one place in arch/sparc needs string.h now, hardirq.h needs forward declaration of task_struct and preempt.h needs direct include of thread_info.h. d) thread_info-related helpers in sched.h and thread_info.h put under ifndef __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS. Obviously safe. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+54
	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!