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2011-07-11Documentation/spinlocks.txt: Remove reference to sti()/cli()Muthu Kumar1-38/+7
Since we removed sti()/cli() and related, how about removing it from Documentation/spinlocks.txt? Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-27locking: Remove deprecated lock initializersThomas Gleixner1-23/+1
Last users are gone. Remove the left overs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-12-14Documentation: rw_lock lessons learnedWilliam Allen Simpson1-100/+84
In recent months, two different network projects erroneously strayed down the rw_lock path. Update the Documentation based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in those threads. Further updates await somebody else with more expertise. Changes: - Merged with extensive content by Stephen Hemminger. - Fix one of the comments by Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txtMark Fasheh1-0/+22
Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers for static spinlocks: ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to _use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static initializers to be more lockdep friendly. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2007-07-16docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OKEd L. Cashin1-9/+11
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization when it is practical. This patch updates documentation for consistency with comments in spinlock_types.h. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-03-22fix rwlock usage exampleLucas Correia Villa Real1-1/+1
This is a trivial patch which fixes a typo on rwlock usage under Documentation/spinlocks.txt. Signed-Off-By: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+212
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!