From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation/locking/locktypes: minor copy editor fixes Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:58:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20200323025501.GE3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <87r1xhz6qp.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <20200325002811.GO19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <87wo78y5yy.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=nzNtddxyHToIfzwzcRpU+rkJvFePaVcVMvDxhJ0zIm8=; b=Ny0TO9lEhbmvUL2PtdSbl/e3Gm dLHrOkD5v8ewIwjLPXGarl7V5+K4iXFzHb2IblMXtRLy0e1xYPfEYd/TNMgeQMms4qdMS3GnsSBzh MG4FkMj0CmZIJdF594Ere7tUatW2cpHFY1FN56RNDDvW3fQmt0gVnStPqemN2Xr9H/2N8GLHIr5Wg jCmOaOYFpQoZFzr/LNFj0CHFygyAwaMnjmIJLMM/2ZdRTd590pAvjPj/dIFmu4oG/94o0FTc9L0qs q8JUj6IqIVy73yedpWdJ2Myuil5rim24S7yVdJXA5SxDwBhAKySclpEAQs+h4mmF+uJG1N1o3ZfNM CTBQSfOQ==; In-Reply-To: <87wo78y5yy.fsf-ecDvlHI5BZPZikZi3RtOZ1XZhhPuCNm+@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Thomas Gleixner , paulmck-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Cc: LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Sebastian Siewior , Linus Torvalds , Joel Fernandes , Oleg Nesterov , Davidlohr Bueso , Jonathan Corbet , Logan Gunthorpe , Bjorn Helgaas , Kurt Schwemmer , linux-pci-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Felipe Balbi , linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Darren Hart From: Randy Dunlap Minor editorial fixes: - add some hyphens in multi-word adjectives - add some periods for consistency - add "'" for possessive CPU's - capitalize IRQ when it's an acronym and not part of a function name Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Sebastian Siewior Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- linux-next-20200325.orig/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst +++ linux-next-20200325/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ rtmutex RT-mutexes are mutexes with support for priority inheritance (PI). -PI has limitations on non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels due to preemption and +PI has limitations on non-PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernels due to preemption and interrupt disabled sections. PI clearly cannot preempt preemption-disabled or interrupt-disabled @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ kernel configuration including PREEMPT_R raw_spinlock_t is a strict spinning lock implementation in all kernels, including PREEMPT_RT kernels. Use raw_spinlock_t only in real critical -core code, low level interrupt handling and places where disabling +core code, low-level interrupt handling and places where disabling preemption or interrupts is required, for example, to safely access hardware state. raw_spinlock_t can sometimes also be used when the critical section is tiny, thus avoiding RT-mutex overhead. @@ -160,20 +160,20 @@ spinlock_t The semantics of spinlock_t change with the state of PREEMPT_RT. -On a non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to raw_spinlock_t +On a non-PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to raw_spinlock_t and has exactly the same semantics. spinlock_t and PREEMPT_RT ------------------------- -On a PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to a separate +On a PREEMPT_RT-enabled kernel spinlock_t is mapped to a separate implementation based on rt_mutex which changes the semantics: - - Preemption is not disabled + - Preemption is not disabled. - The hard interrupt related suffixes for spin_lock / spin_unlock - operations (_irq, _irqsave / _irqrestore) do not affect the CPUs - interrupt disabled state + operations (_irq, _irqsave / _irqrestore) do not affect the CPU's + interrupt disabled state. - The soft interrupt related suffix (_bh()) still disables softirq handlers. @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ fully preemptible context. Instead, use spin_lock_irqsave() and their unlock counterparts. In cases where the interrupt disabling and locking must remain separate, PREEMPT_RT offers a local_lock mechanism. Acquiring the local_lock pins the task to a CPU, -allowing things like per-CPU irq-disabled locks to be acquired. However, +allowing things like per-CPU IRQ-disabled locks to be acquired. However, this approach should be used only where absolutely necessary.