In recent months, two different network projects erroneously
strayed down the rw_lock path. Update the Documentation
based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in
those threads.
Further updates await somebody else with more expertise.
Changes:
- Merged with extensive content by Stephen Hemminger.
- Fix one of the comments by Linus Torvalds.
Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers
for static spinlocks:
ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt
This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to
_use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the
future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static
initializers to be more lockdep friendly.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical. This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a trivial patch which fixes a typo on rwlock usage under
Documentation/spinlocks.txt.
Signed-Off-By: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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!
William Allen Simpson
Mark Fasheh
Ed L. Cashin
Lucas Correia Villa Real
Linus Torvalds