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Juri Lelli a1ea544fe0 Documentation/locking/lockdep: Add section about available annotations
Add section about annotations that can be used to perform additional runtime
checking of locking correctness: assert that certain locks are held and
prevent accidental unlocking.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213185519.18186-3-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-14 12:01:22 +01:00
Juri Lelli e5684bbfc3 Documentation/locking/lockdep: Update info about states
Commit:

  d92a8cfcb3 ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")

removed the 'reclaim_fs' lockdep STATE.

Reflect the change in the documentation.

While we are at it, also clarify the formula to calculate the number of state bits.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213185519.18186-2-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-14 12:01:22 +01:00
Eric Engestrom 1d4093d3b3 locking/Documentation/lockdep: Fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461566229-4717-2-git-send-email-eric@engestrom.ch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-28 10:40:57 +02:00
SeongJae Park a97af339c8 locking/Documentation: Update code path
lockdep code has been moved from kernel/ to kernel/locking/ by commit
8eddac3f10 ("locking: Move the lockdep
code to kernel/locking/"). But, path to lockdep code in document was not
updated.

This commit updates the path.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421176921-27688-1-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-01-16 09:09:21 +01:00
Davidlohr Bueso 214e0aed63 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 <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-08-13 10:32:03 +02:00