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author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2010-09-02 18:48:16 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-09-03 02:19:51 -0400 |
commit | ef5dc121d5a0bb1fa477c5395277259f07d318a3 (patch) | |
tree | 5af1d24406aa014eed72f07097316ba6f7d0d04f /Documentation/mutex-design.txt | |
parent | 950eaaca681c44aab87a46225c9e44f902c080aa (diff) |
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
Fix kernel-doc notation in linux/mutex.h and kernel/mutex.c,
then add these 2 files to the kernel-locking docbook as the
Mutex API reference chapter.
Add one API function to mutex-design.txt and correct a typo in
that file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20100902154816.6cc2f9ad.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mutex-design.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mutex-design.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt index c91ccc0720fa..38c10fd7f411 100644 --- a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt | |||
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ firstly, there's nothing wrong with semaphores. But if the simpler | |||
9 | mutex semantics are sufficient for your code, then there are a couple | 9 | mutex semantics are sufficient for your code, then there are a couple |
10 | of advantages of mutexes: | 10 | of advantages of mutexes: |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | - 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: .e.g on x86, | 12 | - 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: E.g. on x86, |
13 | 'struct semaphore' is 20 bytes, 'struct mutex' is 16 bytes. | 13 | 'struct semaphore' is 20 bytes, 'struct mutex' is 16 bytes. |
14 | A smaller structure size means less RAM footprint, and better | 14 | A smaller structure size means less RAM footprint, and better |
15 | CPU-cache utilization. | 15 | CPU-cache utilization. |
@@ -136,3 +136,4 @@ the APIs of 'struct mutex' have been streamlined: | |||
136 | void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass); | 136 | void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass); |
137 | int mutex_lock_interruptible_nested(struct mutex *lock, | 137 | int mutex_lock_interruptible_nested(struct mutex *lock, |
138 | unsigned int subclass); | 138 | unsigned int subclass); |
139 | int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock); | ||