Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking

Reason: Pull in the semaphore related changes

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 084f6ad7b7a0..a0d479d1e1dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -1922,9 +1922,12 @@ machines due to caching.
       <function>mutex_lock()</function>
       </para>
       <para>
-       There is a <function>mutex_trylock()</function> which can be
-       used inside interrupt context, as it will not sleep.
+       There is a <function>mutex_trylock()</function> which does not
+       sleep.  Still, it must not be used inside interrupt context since
+       its implementation is not safe for that.
        <function>mutex_unlock()</function> will also never sleep.
+       It cannot be used in interrupt context either since a mutex
+       must be released by the same task that acquired it.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -1958,6 +1961,12 @@ machines due to caching.
    </sect1>
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="apiref">
+   <title>Mutex API reference</title>
+!Iinclude/linux/mutex.h
+!Ekernel/mutex.c
+  </chapter>
+
   <chapter id="references">
    <title>Further reading</title>