locking: WW mutex cleanup
authorPeter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:07:12 +0000 (10:07 +0200)
committerThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Tue, 3 Jul 2018 07:42:40 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commit55f036ca7e74b85e34958af3d22121c656796413
tree37bdbcea3384bb7d315f242b03ecc2bbff135f82
parenteab976693153b9854bfa83d131374748f6ca4280
locking: WW mutex cleanup

Make the WW mutex code more readable by adding comments, splitting up
functions and pointing out that we're actually using the Wait-Die
algorithm.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Co-authored-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
include/linux/ww_mutex.h
kernel/locking/mutex.c