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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-08 11:13:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-08 11:13:42 -0700
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Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mutex-design.txt3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 0b1a3f97f285..a0d479d1e1dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -1961,6 +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>
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
mutex semantics are sufficient for your code, then there are a couple
of advantages of mutexes:
- - 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: .e.g on x86,
+ - 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: E.g. on x86,
'struct semaphore' is 20 bytes, 'struct mutex' is 16 bytes.
A smaller structure size means less RAM footprint, and better
CPU-cache utilization.
@@ -136,3 +136,4 @@ the APIs of 'struct mutex' have been streamlined:
void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass);
int mutex_lock_interruptible_nested(struct mutex *lock,
unsigned int subclass);
+ int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock);