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* docs: locking: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab2019-07-151-142/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the kernel development book where it belongs. Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly parse the text file, as they're already in good shape, not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
* Documentation/locking/mutex-design: Update to reflect latest changesJuri Lelli2018-02-111-32/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 3ca0ff571b09 ("locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner") reworked the basic mutex implementation to deal with several problems. Documentation was however left unchanged and became stale. Update mutex-design.txt to reflect changes introduced by the above commit. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209160114.19980-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com [ Small readability tweaks to the text. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantagesDavidlohr Bueso2014-08-131-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning - an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/Davidlohr Bueso2014-08-131-0/+157
Specifically: Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>