From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:41:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/ X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=214e0aed;p=linux-beck.git locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/ Specifically: Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: David Airlie Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jason Low Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Lubomir Rintel Cc: Masanari Iida Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 27e67a98b7be..1750fcef1ab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ local_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. lockdep-design.txt - documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator. +locking/ + - directory with info about kernel locking primitives lockstat.txt - info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention). lockup-watchdogs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl index e584ee12a1e7..7c9cc4846cb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ machines due to caching. - Documentation/spinlocks.txt: + Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt: Linus Torvalds' spinlocking tutorial in the kernel sources. diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/lockdep-design.txt rename to Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt diff --git a/Documentation/lockstat.txt b/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt similarity index 99% rename from Documentation/lockstat.txt rename to Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt index 72d010689751..7428773a1e69 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockstat.txt +++ b/Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Because things like lock contention can severely impact performance. - HOW Lockdep already has hooks in the lock functions and maps lock instances to -lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt). +lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lokcing/lockdep-design.txt). The graph below shows the relation between the lock functions and the various hooks therein. diff --git a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/mutex-design.txt rename to Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt diff --git a/Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt rename to Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt diff --git a/Documentation/rt-mutex.txt b/Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/rt-mutex.txt rename to Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt diff --git a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt similarity index 98% rename from Documentation/spinlocks.txt rename to Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt index 97eaf5727178..ff35e40bdf5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt +++ b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions: spin_unlock(&lock); (and the equivalent read-write versions too, of course). The spinlock will -guarantee the same kind of exclusive access, and it will be much faster. +guarantee the same kind of exclusive access, and it will be much faster. This is useful if you know that the data in question is only ever -manipulated from a "process context", ie no interrupts involved. +manipulated from a "process context", ie no interrupts involved. The reasons you mustn't use these versions if you have interrupts that play with the spinlock is that you can get deadlocks: @@ -122,21 +122,21 @@ the other interrupt happens on another CPU, but it is _not_ ok if the interrupt happens on the same CPU that already holds the lock, because the lock will obviously never be released (because the interrupt is waiting for the lock, and the lock-holder is interrupted by the interrupt and will -not continue until the interrupt has been processed). +not continue until the interrupt has been processed). (This is also the reason why the irq-versions of the spinlocks only need to disable the _local_ interrupts - it's ok to use spinlocks in interrupts on other CPU's, because an interrupt on another CPU doesn't interrupt the CPU that holds the lock, so the lock-holder can continue and eventually -releases the lock). +releases the lock). Note that you can be clever with read-write locks and interrupts. For example, if you know that the interrupt only ever gets a read-lock, then you can use a non-irq version of read locks everywhere - because they -don't block on each other (and thus there is no dead-lock wrt interrupts. -But when you do the write-lock, you have to use the irq-safe version. +don't block on each other (and thus there is no dead-lock wrt interrupts. +But when you do the write-lock, you have to use the irq-safe version. -For an example of being clever with rw-locks, see the "waitqueue_lock" +For an example of being clever with rw-locks, see the "waitqueue_lock" handling in kernel/sched/core.c - nothing ever _changes_ a wait-queue from within an interrupt, they only read the queue in order to know whom to wake up. So read-locks are safe (which is good: they are very common diff --git a/Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt similarity index 100% rename from Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt rename to Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 1acc624ecfd7..aac481fcbf5c 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -5523,8 +5523,8 @@ M: Ingo Molnar L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core/locking S: Maintained -F: Documentation/lockdep*.txt -F: Documentation/lockstat.txt +F: Documentation/locking/lockdep*.txt +F: Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt F: include/linux/lockdep.h F: kernel/locking/ diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c index 0dc57d5ecd10..3a02e5e3e9f3 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ * of extra utility/tracking out of our acquire-ctx. This is provided * by drm_modeset_lock / drm_modeset_acquire_ctx. * - * For basic principles of ww_mutex, see: Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt + * For basic principles of ww_mutex, see: Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt * * The basic usage pattern is to: * diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h index 008388f920d7..f388481201cd 100644 --- a/include/linux/lockdep.h +++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra * - * see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt for more details. + * see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt for more details. */ #ifndef __LINUX_LOCKDEP_H #define __LINUX_LOCKDEP_H diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h index e4c29418f407..cc31498fc526 100644 --- a/include/linux/mutex.h +++ b/include/linux/mutex.h @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static inline int mutex_is_locked(struct mutex *lock) /* * See kernel/locking/mutex.c for detailed documentation of these APIs. - * Also see Documentation/mutex-design.txt. + * Also see Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt. */ #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC extern void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass); diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h index 035d3c57fc8a..8f498cdde280 100644 --- a/include/linux/rwsem.h +++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ extern void downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem); * static then another method for expressing nested locking is * the explicit definition of lock class keys and the use of * lockdep_set_class() at lock initialization time. - * See Documentation/lockdep-design.txt for more details.) + * See Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt for more details.) */ extern void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass); extern void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass); diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c index 0d8b6ed93874..dadbf88c22c4 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ * by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins, Peter Morreale * and Sven Dietrich. * - * Also see Documentation/mutex-design.txt. + * Also see Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt. */ #include #include diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c index a0ea2a141b3b..7c98873a3077 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2005 Kihon Technologies Inc., Steven Rostedt * Copyright (C) 2006 Esben Nielsen * - * See Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt for details. + * See Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt for details. */ #include #include diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 901096d31c66..9b94a063e26c 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. - For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. config LOCKDEP bool @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ config LOCK_STAT help This feature enables tracking lock contention points - For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt + For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", subcommand of perf.