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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-15 22:58:58 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-15 22:58:58 +0300
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Merge tag 'standardize-docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation format standardization from Jonathan Corbet: "This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format without incorporating them into the Sphinx tree. The hope is to bring some uniformity to kernel documentation and, perhaps more importantly, have our existing docs serve as an example of the desired formatting for those that will be added later. Mauro has gone through and fixed up a lot of top-level documentation files to make them conform to the RST format, but without moving or renaming them in any way. This will help when we incorporate the ones we want to keep into the Sphinx doctree, but the real purpose is to bring a bit of uniformity to our documentation and let the top-level docs serve as examples for those writing new ones" * tag 'standardize-docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (84 commits) docs: kprobes.txt: Fix whitespacing tee.txt: standardize document format cgroup-v2.txt: standardize document format dell_rbu.txt: standardize document format zorro.txt: standardize document format xz.txt: standardize document format xillybus.txt: standardize document format vfio.txt: standardize document format vfio-mediated-device.txt: standardize document format unaligned-memory-access.txt: standardize document format this_cpu_ops.txt: standardize document format svga.txt: standardize document format static-keys.txt: standardize document format smsc_ece1099.txt: standardize document format SM501.txt: standardize document format siphash.txt: standardize document format sgi-ioc4.txt: standardize document format SAK.txt: standardize document format rpmsg.txt: standardize document format robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt b/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt
index 77b36f59d16b..14ab5787b9a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+================
Futex Requeue PI
-----------------
+================
Requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex requires
special handling in order to ensure the underlying rt_mutex is never
@@ -20,28 +21,28 @@ implementation would wake the highest-priority waiter, and leave the
rest to the natural wakeup inherent in unlocking the mutex
associated with the condvar.
-Consider the simplified glibc calls:
-
-/* caller must lock mutex */
-pthread_cond_wait(cond, mutex)
-{
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- unlock(mutex);
- do {
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- futex_wait(cond->__data.__futex);
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- } while(...)
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- lock(mutex);
-}
-
-pthread_cond_broadcast(cond)
-{
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- futex_requeue(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
-}
+Consider the simplified glibc calls::
+
+ /* caller must lock mutex */
+ pthread_cond_wait(cond, mutex)
+ {
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ unlock(mutex);
+ do {
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ futex_wait(cond->__data.__futex);
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ } while(...)
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ lock(mutex);
+ }
+
+ pthread_cond_broadcast(cond)
+ {
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ futex_requeue(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
+ }
Once pthread_cond_broadcast() requeues the tasks, the cond->mutex
has waiters. Note that pthread_cond_wait() attempts to lock the
@@ -53,29 +54,29 @@ In order to support PI-aware pthread_condvar's, the kernel needs to
be able to requeue tasks to PI futexes. This support implies that
upon a successful futex_wait system call, the caller would return to
user space already holding the PI futex. The glibc implementation
-would be modified as follows:
-
-
-/* caller must lock mutex */
-pthread_cond_wait_pi(cond, mutex)
-{
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- unlock(mutex);
- do {
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- futex_wait_requeue_pi(cond->__data.__futex);
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- } while(...)
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- /* the kernel acquired the mutex for us */
-}
-
-pthread_cond_broadcast_pi(cond)
-{
- lock(cond->__data.__lock);
- unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
- futex_requeue_pi(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
-}
+would be modified as follows::
+
+
+ /* caller must lock mutex */
+ pthread_cond_wait_pi(cond, mutex)
+ {
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ unlock(mutex);
+ do {
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ futex_wait_requeue_pi(cond->__data.__futex);
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ } while(...)
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ /* the kernel acquired the mutex for us */
+ }
+
+ pthread_cond_broadcast_pi(cond)
+ {
+ lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+ futex_requeue_pi(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
+ }
The actual glibc implementation will likely test for PI and make the
necessary changes inside the existing calls rather than creating new