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Davidlohr Bueso 52b94129f2 locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait
The use of any kind of wait queue is an overkill for pcpu-rwsems.
While one option would be to use the less heavy simple (swait)
flavor, this is still too much for what pcpu-rwsems needs. For one,
we do not care about any sort of queuing in that the only (rare) time
writers (and readers, for that matter) are queued is when trying to
acquire the regular contended rw_sem. There cannot be any further
queuing as writers are serialized by the rw_sem in the first place.

Given that percpu_down_write() must not be called after exit_notify(),
we can replace the bulky waitqueue with rcuwait such that a writer
can wait for its turn to take the lock. As such, we can avoid the
queue handling and locking overhead.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484148146-14210-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14 11:14:35 +01:00
arch sched/core: Remove set_task_state() 2017-01-14 11:14:16 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-01-04 09:03:37 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation mm: add documentation for page fragment APIs 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
drivers sched/core: Remove set_task_state() 2017-01-14 11:14:16 +01:00
firmware
fs ocfs2: fix crash caused by stale lvb with fsdlm plugin 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -08:00
include locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait 2017-01-14 11:14:35 +01:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel locking/percpu-rwsem: Replace waitqueue with rcuwait 2017-01-14 11:14:35 +01:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix frv build failure 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
mm mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-01-11 11:15:15 -08:00
samples vfio-mdev: fix some error codes in the sample code 2017-01-04 08:32:23 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: firewire-lib: change structure member with proper type" 2017-01-05 08:39:47 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-01-11 11:15:15 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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COPYING
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: remove duplicate bug filling description 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 14:18:17 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.