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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index 6ed806e6061b..c3448929a824 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ spinlock, but you may block holding a mutex. If you can't lock a mutex, your task will suspend itself, and be woken up when the mutex is released. This means the CPU can do something else while you are waiting. There are many cases when you simply can't sleep (see -`What Functions Are Safe To Call From Interrupts? <#sleeping-things>`__), +`What Functions Are Safe To Call From Interrupts?`_), and so have to use a spinlock instead. Neither type of lock is recursive: see -`Deadlock: Simple and Advanced <#deadlock>`__. +`Deadlock: Simple and Advanced`_. Locks and Uniprocessor Kernels ------------------------------ @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ perfect world). Note that you can also use spin_lock_irq() or spin_lock_irqsave() here, which stop hardware interrupts -as well: see `Hard IRQ Context <#hard-irq-context>`__. +as well: see `Hard IRQ Context`_. This works perfectly for UP as well: the spin lock vanishes, and this macro simply becomes local_bh_disable() @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ The Same Softirq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The same softirq can run on the other CPUs: you can use a per-CPU array -(see `Per-CPU Data <#per-cpu-data>`__) for better performance. If you're +(see `Per-CPU Data`_) for better performance. If you're going so far as to use a softirq, you probably care about scalable performance enough to justify the extra complexity. |