From 9161f5409798d52aa8598ff12575fde2327bed84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:36:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite Our mutexes have gone a long ways since the original implementation back in 2005/2006. However, the mutex-design.txt document is still stuck in the past, to the point where most of the information there is practically useless and, more important, simply incorrect. This patch pretty much rewrites it to resemble what we have nowadays. Since regular semaphores are almost much extinct in the kernel (most users now rely on mutexes or rwsems), it no longer makes sense to have such a close comparison, which was copied from most of the cover letter when Ingo introduced the generic mutex subsystem. Note that ww_mutexes are intentionally left out, leaving things as generic as possible. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: waiman.long@hp.com Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401338203.2618.11.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed