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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt index 8a112dc304c3..34c3a1b50b9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt @@ -309,11 +309,15 @@ Design: normal mutex locks, which are far more common. As such there is only a small increase in code size if wait/wound mutexes are not used. + We maintain the following invariants for the wait list: + (1) Waiters with an acquire context are sorted by stamp order; waiters + without an acquire context are interspersed in FIFO order. + (2) Among waiters with contexts, only the first one can have other locks + acquired already (ctx->acquired > 0). Note that this waiter may come + after other waiters without contexts in the list. + In general, not much contention is expected. The locks are typically used to - serialize access to resources for devices. The only way to make wakeups - smarter would be at the cost of adding a field to struct mutex_waiter. This - would add overhead to all cases where normal mutexes are used, and - ww_mutexes are generally less performance sensitive. + serialize access to resources for devices. Lockdep: Special care has been taken to warn for as many cases of api abuse |