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Thomas Gleixner f1e67e355c fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t
Bit spinlocks are problematic if PREEMPT_RT is enabled, because they
disable preemption, which is undesired for latency reasons and breaks when
regular spinlocks are taken within the bit_spinlock locked region because
regular spinlocks are converted to 'sleeping spinlocks' on RT.

PREEMPT_RT replaced the bit spinlocks with regular spinlocks to avoid this
problem. The replacement was done conditionaly at compile time, but
Christoph requested to do an unconditional conversion.

Jan suggested to move the spinlock into a existing padding hole which
avoids a size increase of struct buffer_head on production kernels.

As a benefit the lock gains lockdep coverage.

[ bigeasy: Remove the wrapper and use always spinlock_t and move it into
           the padding hole ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191118132824.rclhrbujqh4b4g4d@linutronix.de
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Documentation Documentation/locking/locktypes: Minor copy editor fixes 2020-03-28 12:47:34 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'uaccess.futex' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs into locking/core 2020-03-28 11:59:24 +01:00
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certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
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drivers thermal/x86_pkg_temp: Make pkg_temp_lock a raw_spinlock_t 2020-03-28 13:21:08 +01:00
fs fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t 2020-03-28 13:21:08 +01:00
include fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t 2020-03-28 13:21:08 +01:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.