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authorHenrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>2014-12-26 11:26:22 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2014-12-30 01:27:54 +0300
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Update of Documentation/00-INDEX
Added files - hsi.txt was added by 3a8ab8af (HSI: Add some general description for the HSI subsystem) - lzo.txt was added by d98a0526 (lzo: document part of the encoding) - xillybus.txt was added by 7051924f (xillybus: Move out of staging) - mailbox.txt was added by 15320fbc (add documentation for mailbox framework) Moved files - xommit 214e0aed (Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/): * lockdep-design.txt * lockstat.txt * mutex-design.txt * rt-mutex-design.txt * rt-mutex.txt * spinlocks.txt * ww-mutex-design.txt - kselftest.txt was moved by 3c415707 (kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir) CC: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> CC: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> CC: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> CC: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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+00-INDEX
+ - this file.
+lockdep-design.txt
+ - documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator.
+lockstat.txt
+ - info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention).
+mutex-design.txt
+ - info on the generic mutex subsystem.
+rt-mutex-design.txt
+ - description of the RealTime mutex implementation design.
+rt-mutex.txt
+ - desc. of RT-mutex subsystem with PI (Priority Inheritance) support.
+spinlocks.txt
+ - info on using spinlocks to provide exclusive access in kernel.
+ww-mutex-design.txt
+ - Intro to Mutex wait/would deadlock handling.s