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Currently, a lock can block pending requests, but all pending requests are equal. If lots of pending requests are mutually exclusive, this means they will all be woken up and all but one will fail. This can hurt performance. So we will allow pending requests to block other requests. Only the first request will be woken, and it will wake the others. This patch doesn't implement this fully, but prepares the way. - It acknowledges that a request might be blocking other requests, and when the request is converted to a lock, those blocked requests are moved across. - When a request is requeued or discarded, all blocked requests are woken. - When deadlock-detection looks for the lock which blocks a given request, we follow the chain of ->fl_blocker all the way to the top. Tested-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> |
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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.