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Tim Chen 3cf2f34e1a rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field 
It took me quite a while to understand how rwsem's count field
mainifested itself in different scenarios.

Add comments to provide a quick reference to the the rwsem's count
field for each scenario where readers and writers are contending
for the lock.

Hopefully it will be useful for future maintenance of the code and
for people to get up to speed on how the logic in the code works.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399060437.2970.146.camel@schen9-DESK
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-04 20:34:26 +02:00
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debug arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
events Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2014-04-05 13:20:43 -07:00
gcov
irq genirq: Export symbol no_action() 2014-03-22 11:33:09 +01:00
locking rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field 2014-05-04 20:34:26 +02:00
power kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
printk printk: fix one circular lockdep warning about console_lock 2014-04-03 16:21:08 -07:00
rcu arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
sched arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
time kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_tree.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
audit_watch.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
audit.h audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in 2014-03-20 10:10:53 -04:00
auditfilter.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
auditsc.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2014-04-03 09:26:18 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string() 2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
cgroup.c cgroup: newly created dirs and files should be owned by the creator 2014-04-07 16:44:47 -04:00
compat.c Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 12:51:41 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c CPU hotplug: Provide lockless versions of callback registration functions 2014-03-20 13:43:40 +01:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-04-03 16:22:16 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c wait: WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED doesn't work if a zombie leader is traced by another process 2014-04-07 16:36:06 -07:00
extable.c asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible 2014-02-13 18:13:22 -08:00
fork.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex_compat.c compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec) 2014-02-02 14:09:12 -08:00
futex.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
groups.c kernel/groups.c: remove return value of set_groups 2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
hrtimer.c timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target() 2014-03-20 12:35:46 +01:00
hung_task.c kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
irq_work.c perf/x86: Warn to early_printk() in case irq_work is too slow 2014-02-21 21:49:07 +01:00
itimer.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
kmod.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations 2014-04-03 16:20:49 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 14:13:25 -07:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount. 2014-04-07 16:36:14 -07:00
notifier.c notifier: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw() 2014-02-26 06:35:13 -08:00
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c kernel/panic.c: display reason at end + pr_emerg 2014-04-07 16:36:08 -07:00
params.c
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: pidns_get() should check task_active_pid_ns() != NULL 2014-04-02 16:20:21 -07:00
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
profile.c CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
ptrace.c kernel/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2014-03-06 15:35:10 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
res_counter.c res_counter: remove interface for locked charging and uncharging 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: make reallocate_resource() static 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: fix populating a0-a5 syscall args in 32-bit x86 BPF 2014-04-14 16:26:47 -04:00
signal.c kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
smp.c smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async() 2014-02-24 14:47:15 -08:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Add linux/irq.h to make it compile again 2014-03-19 11:28:14 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix^2 race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2014-03-11 11:33:47 +01:00
sys_ni.c fs, kernel: permit disabling the uselib syscall 2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
sys.c mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE 2014-04-07 16:35:52 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl.c hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec" 2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.bc
timer.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-01 11:00:07 -07:00
torture.c rcutorture: Gracefully handle NULL cleanup hooks 2014-02-23 09:04:39 -08:00
tracepoint.c This includes the final patch to clean up and fix the issue with the 2014-04-12 13:06:10 -07:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async() 2014-02-24 14:47:15 -08:00
user_namespace.c user namespace: fix incorrect memory barriers 2014-04-14 16:03:02 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-04-03 16:21:07 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watchdog.c kernel/watchdog.c: touch_nmi_watchdog should only touch local cpu not every one 2014-04-03 16:20:58 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-01 11:00:07 -07:00