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Instead of using a flag bit for exclusive operation, use a variable to store which exclusive operation is being performed. Introduce an API to start and finish an exclusive operation. This would enable another way for tools to check which operation is running on why starting an exclusive operation failed. The followup patch adds a sysfs_notify() to alert userspace when the state changes, so userspace can perform select() on it to get notified of the change. This would enable us to enqueue a command which will wait for current exclusive operation to complete before issuing the next exclusive operation. This has been done synchronously as opposed to a background process, or else error collection (if any) will become difficult. Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [ update comments ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.