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NeilBrown 7a41c294c1 rhashtable: use cmpxchg() in nested_table_alloc()
nested_table_alloc() relies on the fact that there is
at most one spinlock allocated for every slot in the top
level nested table, so it is not possible for two threads
to try to allocate the same table at the same time.

This assumption is a little fragile (it is not explicit) and is
unnecessary as cmpxchg() can be used instead.

A future patch will replace the spinlocks by per-bucket bitlocks,
and then we won't be able to protect the slot pointer with a spinlock.

So replace rcu_assign_pointer() with cmpxchg() - which has equivalent
barrier properties.
If it the cmp fails, free the table that was just allocated.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-07 19:12:12 -07:00
arch RISC-V Patches for 5.1-rc4 2019-04-04 15:04:00 -10:00
block blk-mq: fix sbitmap ws_active for shared tags 2019-03-25 13:05:47 -06:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: phy: add g12a mdio mux documentation 2019-04-06 18:16:58 -07:00
drivers net: hns: fix unsigned comparison to less than zero 2019-04-06 18:29:14 -07:00
fs cifs: a smb2_validate_and_copy_iov failure does not mean the handle is invalid. 2019-04-01 14:33:38 -05:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.