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author | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-10-19 11:13:04 +0400 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-10-19 11:13:04 +0400 |
commit | fa251f89903d73989e2f63e13d0eaed1e07ce0da (patch) | |
tree | 3f7fe779941e3b6d67754dd7c44a32f48ea47c74 /Documentation/mutex-design.txt | |
parent | dd3932eddf428571762596e17b65f5dc92ca361b (diff) | |
parent | cd07202cc8262e1669edff0d97715f3dd9260917 (diff) | |
download | linux-fa251f89903d73989e2f63e13d0eaed1e07ce0da.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier
Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
drivers/block/loop.c
mm/swapfile.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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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); |