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Commit 214e0aed authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/ 



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: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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>
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Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 7608a43d

Documentation/00-INDEX

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	- semantics and behavior of local atomic operations.

lockdep-design.txt

	- documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator.

locking/

	- directory with info about kernel locking primitives

lockstat.txt

	- info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention).

lockup-watchdogs.txt

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl

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   <itemizedlist>

    <listitem>

     <para>

       <filename>Documentation/spinlocks.txt</filename>: 

       <filename>Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt</filename>:

       Linus Torvalds' spinlocking tutorial in the kernel sources.

     </para>

    </listitem>

Documentation/lockstat.txt→Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt

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- HOW



Lockdep already has hooks in the lock functions and maps lock instances to

lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt).

lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lokcing/lockdep-design.txt).

The graph below shows the relation between the lock functions and the various

hooks therein.