linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation
Davidlohr Bueso 9161f54097 locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite
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>
2014-06-05 13:29:37 +02:00
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ABI More ACPI and power management fixes and updates for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-11 13:20:04 -07:00
accounting Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
acpi ACPI and power management updates for 3.14-rc1 2014-01-24 15:51:02 -08:00
aoe aoe: remove do-nothing NAME="%k" term from example udev rules 2013-09-11 15:59:28 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'mvebu/soc3' into next/dt 2014-03-17 12:13:09 +01:00
arm64 - Documentation clarification on CPU topology and booting requirements 2014-04-08 12:06:03 -07:00
auxdisplay
backlight backlight: lp855x_bl: support new LP8555 device 2013-11-13 12:09:14 +09:00
blackfin Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
block Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
blockdev zram: propagate error to user 2014-04-07 16:36:02 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroups memcg: rename high level charging functions 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
connector connector: add portid to unicast in addition to broadcasting 2014-02-07 15:40:17 -08:00
console TTY:console: update document console.txt 2013-05-21 10:21:57 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: Add stop CPU callback to cpufreq_driver interface 2014-03-20 03:50:12 +01:00
cpuidle cpuidle: remove cpuidle_unregister_governor() 2013-10-30 01:21:24 +01:00
cris
crypto drivers/dma: remove unused support for MEMSET operations 2013-07-03 16:07:42 -07:00
development-process Documentation: development-process: Update -mm and -next URLs 2013-07-25 12:37:24 +02:00
device-mapper dm: add era target 2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
devicetree pinctrl: fix typo in bindings documentation 2014-04-14 09:39:33 +02:00
DocBook fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory 2014-04-17 08:10:19 +03:00
driver-model Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-01-22 21:21:55 -08:00
dvb Linux 3.14-rc5 2014-03-11 06:55:49 -03:00
early-userspace Documentation: remove reference to 2.7 kernel in early-userspace 2013-08-20 12:47:28 +02:00
EDID drm: Add 1600x1200 (UXGA) screen resolution to the built-in EDIDs 2013-04-12 14:06:16 +10:00
extcon extcon: fix switch class porting guide (Documentation) 2014-01-07 11:54:28 +09:00
fault-injection
fb Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
filesystems Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
firmware_class
fmc FMC: make eeprom attribute writable 2014-02-28 15:12:08 -08:00
frv
gpio gpio: make gpiod_direction_output take a logical value 2014-02-07 09:47:02 +01:00
hid HID: uhid: Add UHID_CREATE2 + UHID_INPUT2 2014-04-01 18:27:33 +02:00
hwmon Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2014-04-05 18:45:11 -07:00
i2c Documentation: i2c: improve section about flags mangling the protocol 2014-04-06 13:53:48 +02:00
i2o
ia64 Fix example error_injection_tool 2013-04-02 09:39:55 -07:00
ide Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
infiniband
input doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
ioctl s390/hypfs: add interface for diagnose 0x304 2014-01-24 09:40:59 +01:00
isdn
ja_JP Documentation/SubmittingPatches: remove references to patch-scripts 2014-04-03 16:21:27 -07:00
kbuild kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT 2014-04-07 16:36:09 -07:00
kdump Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-07-04 11:40:58 -07:00
ko_KR Documentation: HOWTO: Updates on subsystem trees, patchwork, -next (vs. -mm) in ko_KR 2014-01-08 15:32:51 -08:00
laptops Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
leds Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
m68k Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
make
memory-devices
metag doc: fix misspellings with 'codespell' tool 2013-05-28 12:02:12 +02:00
mic misc: mic: Fix endianness issues. 2013-11-27 11:03:38 -08:00
mips
misc-devices Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2014-01-29 18:56:27 -08:00
mmc mmc: core: Add in support to expose PRV for v4 MMCs 2013-03-22 12:10:42 -04:00
mn10300
mtd mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add documentation about the controller 2014-01-03 11:22:09 -08:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-04-02 20:53:45 -07:00
nfc
parisc parisc: document the shadow registers 2013-07-09 22:09:19 +02:00
PCI Merge branch 'pci/dead-code' into next 2014-02-20 14:32:34 -07:00
pcmcia
phy phy: Add new Exynos USB 2.0 PHY driver 2014-03-08 12:39:44 +05:30
power Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-04-02 16:23:38 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Update the 00-Index in Documentation/powerpc 2013-08-27 14:44:27 +10:00
pps USB: serial: invoke dcd_change ldisc's handler. 2013-09-26 09:45:40 -07:00
prctl
pti
ptp ptp: Fix compiler warnings in the testptp utility 2014-03-27 14:51:47 -04:00
rapidio rapidio: rework device hierarchy and introduce mport class of devices 2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
RCU documentation: Fix some inconsistencies in RTFP.txt 2014-02-17 14:56:10 -08:00
s390 Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
scheduler asm/system.h: clean asm/system.h from docs 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
scsi [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update 2014-03-15 10:19:21 -07:00
security doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
serial Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
sh
sound x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation 2014-02-27 08:07:39 -08:00
spi Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/s3c64xx', 'spi/topic/sc18is602', 'spi/topic/sh-hspi', 'spi/topic/sh-msiof', 'spi/topic/sh-sci', 'spi/topic/sirf' and 'spi/topic/spidev' into spi-next 2014-03-30 00:51:34 +00:00
sysctl hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec" 2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
target target: Remove TF_CIT_TMPL macro 2013-10-16 13:35:02 -07:00
thermal thermal: thermal_core: allow binding with limits on bind_params 2013-09-03 09:10:24 -04:00
timers Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
tpm drivers/tpm: add xen tpmfront interface 2013-08-09 10:57:06 -04:00
trace Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation. 2014-04-03 10:26:31 -07:00
usb doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
vDSO
video4linux [media] s5p-fimc: Remove reference to outdated macro 2014-03-14 10:37:43 -03:00
virtual Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-04-02 16:23:38 -07:00
vm doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
w1 Merge 3.14-rc3 into char-misc-next 2014-02-18 08:09:40 -08:00
watchdog watchdog: it87_wdt: Work around non-working CIR interrupts 2014-03-31 13:33:55 +02:00
wimax
x86 x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size name 2014-03-13 15:32:42 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: remap io area defined in device tree 2014-01-15 00:25:14 +04:00
zh_CN Documentation/SubmittingPatches: remove references to patch-scripts 2014-04-03 16:21:27 -07:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX Merge branch 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 13:15:58 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
assoc_array.txt KEYS: Fix multiple key add into associative array 2013-12-02 11:24:18 +00:00
atomic_ops.txt arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-07-04 11:40:58 -07:00
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt Documentation: fix typo and update version in cachetlb.txt 2013-08-20 12:46:52 +02:00
Changes remove obsolete references to powertweak 2013-11-27 20:34:32 -08:00
circular-buffers.txt documentation: Update circular buffer for load-acquire/store-release 2013-12-03 10:08:57 -08:00
clk.txt Documentation: clk: Add locking documentation 2014-03-19 14:56:06 -07:00
coccinelle.txt Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required 2013-07-03 22:58:20 +02:00
CodingStyle Documentation/CodingStyle: allow multiple return statements per function 2013-07-03 16:08:01 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt Doc/cpu-hotplug: Specify race-free way to register CPU hotplug callbacks 2014-03-20 13:43:40 +01:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo 2013-09-04 12:59:47 +02:00
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt firewire: Enable remote DMA above 4 GB 2014-01-20 01:11:13 +01:00
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2014-04-04 09:50:07 -07:00
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt DMA-API: provide a helper to set both DMA and coherent DMA masks 2013-09-17 15:32:37 +01:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API: provide a helper to set both DMA and coherent DMA masks 2013-09-17 15:32:37 +01:00
DMA-attributes.txt doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo 2013-10-14 15:50:53 +02:00
dma-buf-sharing.txt dma-buf: Expose buffer size to userspace (v2) 2013-09-10 11:36:45 +05:30
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt
dmatest.txt dmatest: add a 'wait' parameter 2013-11-14 11:04:40 -08:00
dontdiff Documentation: LLVMLinux: Update Documentation/dontdiff 2014-04-09 13:44:34 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt dynamic-debug-howto.txt: update since new wildcard support 2014-01-23 16:36:55 -08:00
edac.txt [media, edac] Change my email address 2014-02-07 08:03:07 -02:00
efi-stub.txt doc: Fix trivial spelling mistake in efi-stub.txt 2013-12-19 15:09:14 +01:00
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt doc: fix some typos 2013-12-02 14:48:28 +01:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
gcov.txt gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: HOWTO: Update broken links to tpp 2013-12-10 23:09:08 -08:00
hw_random.txt hwrng: Fix a wrong comment in Documentation/hw_random.txt 2013-03-10 18:16:36 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo 2013-08-27 10:46:02 +02:00
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt doc: fix some typos 2013-12-02 14:48:28 +01:00
iostats.txt iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6 2013-04-29 15:18:50 +02:00
IPMI.txt ipmi: add options to disable openfirmware and PCI scanning 2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
IRQ-affinity.txt doc: fix a typo about irq affinity 2013-08-20 12:59:18 +02:00
IRQ-domain.txt doc: fix some typos 2013-12-02 14:48:28 +01:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt asm/system.h: clean asm/system.h from docs 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt kernel-doc: Update references to SGML to refs to XML instead. 2013-05-28 12:02:11 +02:00
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt More ACPI and power management fixes and updates for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-11 13:20:04 -07:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Workqueue affinity 2014-02-17 14:56:08 -08:00
kmemcheck.txt doc: fix double words 2014-03-21 13:16:58 +01:00
kmemleak.txt Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates 2014-04-03 16:21:27 -07:00
kobject.txt kobject: remove kset from sysfs immediately in kset_unregister() 2013-12-07 21:20:11 -08:00
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt
lockstat.txt lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times 2013-10-09 08:19:08 +02:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
magic-number.txt
Makefile
ManagementStyle
md.txt doc: fix some typos in documentations 2013-12-02 14:45:19 +01:00
media-framework.txt Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2013-07-13 12:09:57 -07:00
memory-barriers.txt arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
module-signing.txt Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke 2014-04-06 09:38:07 -07:00
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite 2014-06-05 13:29:37 +02:00
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. 2014-03-31 14:52:43 +10:30
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt drivers: phy: Add support for optional phys 2014-02-05 05:48:43 +00:00
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: Fix some typos and grammar issues in the documentation 2014-01-15 13:59:50 +01:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt vsprintf: add %pad extension for dma_addr_t use 2014-01-23 16:36:56 -08:00
pwm.txt Documentation/pwm: Fix trivial typos 2013-10-24 10:51:33 +02:00
ramoops.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt doc: fix some typos in documentations 2013-12-02 14:45:19 +01:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt Documentation/robust-futex-API: Count properly to 4 2013-11-30 14:08:28 +01:00
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt doc: fix some typos in documentations 2013-12-02 14:45:19 +01:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: add ability to push out an existing wakealarm using sysfs 2013-07-03 16:07:54 -07:00
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
sparse.txt
spinlocks.txt sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
static-keys.txt doc: fix some typos in documentations 2013-12-02 14:45:19 +01:00
SubmitChecklist Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs 2014-04-03 16:21:27 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt doc: Fix typo in doucmentations 2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00
sysrq.txt sysrq: Allow magic SysRq key functions to be disabled through Kconfig 2013-10-16 13:01:44 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.txt percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations 2013-04-04 10:24:53 -07:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt ether_addr_equal: Optimize implementation, remove unused compare_ether_addr 2013-12-06 16:37:43 -05:00
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt vfio: fix documentation 2013-09-05 16:36:21 -06:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt VME: Rename vme_slot_get to avoid confusion with reference counting 2013-12-03 11:15:58 -08:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt workqueue: Correct/Drop references to gcwq in Documentation 2013-08-21 10:32:09 -04:00
ww-mutex-design.txt mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks 2013-06-26 12:10:56 +02:00
xz.txt
zorro.txt zorro/UAPI: Disintegrate include/linux/zorro*.h 2013-11-26 11:09:08 +01:00