locking/lglocks: Add documentation of current lglocks implementation
authorNicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Mon, 8 Dec 2014 08:33:26 +0000 (09:33 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Dec 2014 08:55:00 +0000 (09:55 +0100)
commit9fd7fc34cfcaf9f6c932ee1710cce83da3b7bd59
treee57d5717ef514533d4885cc0748c6a7c7150f136
parent6f008e72cd111a119b5d8de8c5438d892aae99eb
locking/lglocks: Add documentation of current lglocks implementation

Local/global locks are currently not documented anywhere other
than in an somewhat out-of-date LWN article - this is an attempt
to document the current state of lglocks.

This patch is against linux-next 3.18.0-rc6

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Carsten Emde <c.emde@osadl.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141208083326.GA29895@opentech.at
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/locking/lglock.txt [new file with mode: 0644]