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Will Deacon 4df714be4d locking/atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_acquire()
smp_cond_load_acquire() provides a way to spin on a variable with acquire
semantics until some conditional expression involving the variable is
satisfied. Architectures such as arm64 can potentially enter a low-power
state, waking up only when the value of the variable changes, which
reduces the system impact of tight polling loops.

This patch makes the same interface available to users of atomic_t,
atomic64_t and atomic_long_t, rather than require messy accesses to the
structure internals.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy.Linton@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507810851-306-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-25 10:57:24 +02:00
Documentation locking/barriers: Kill lockless_dereference() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
arch locking/atomics/alpha: Add smp_read_barrier_depends() to _release()/_relaxed() atomics 2017-10-24 13:17:34 +02:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge commit 'tags/keys-fixes-20171018' into fixes-v4.14-rc5 2017-10-19 12:28:38 +11:00
drivers locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
include locking/atomic: Add atomic_cond_read_acquire() 2017-10-25 10:57:24 +02:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel locking/qrwlock: Use 'struct qrwlock' instead of 'struct __qrwlock' 2017-10-25 10:57:24 +02:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-21 22:44:48 -04:00
mm locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-10-24 13:17:33 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-21 22:44:48 -04:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-21 22:44:48 -04:00
scripts linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h 2017-10-24 13:17:32 +02:00
security Linux 4.14-rc6 2017-10-24 13:17:20 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect TLV callback check introduced during set_fs() removal 2017-10-18 12:27:00 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-22 06:52:53 -04:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS USB/PHY fixes for 4.14-rc6 2017-10-23 06:33:05 -04:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc6 2017-10-23 06:49:47 -04:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

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.