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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/connector/cn_test.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/connector/ucon.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/6pack.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | 13 |
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt index 93cb28d05dcd..18f9651ff23d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt @@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ not detect it missed following items in original chain. obj = kmem_cache_alloc(...); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; -atomic_inc(&obj->refcnt); /* * we need to make sure obj->key is updated before obj->next + * or obj->refcnt */ smp_wmb(); +atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); hlist_add_head_rcu(&obj->obj_node, list); unlock_chain(); // typically a spin_unlock() @@ -159,6 +160,10 @@ out: obj = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; +/* + * changes to obj->key must be visible before refcnt one + */ +smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); /* * insert obj in RCU way (readers might be traversing chain) diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c index f688eba87704..6a5be5d5c8e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * cn_test.c * - * 2004-2005 Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * 2004+ Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * All rights reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -194,5 +194,5 @@ module_init(cn_test_init); module_exit(cn_test_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Connector's test module"); diff --git a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c index d738cde2a8d5..c5092ad0ce4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * ucon.c * - * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify diff --git a/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt b/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt index d0777a1200e1..8f339428fdf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ This is the 6pack-mini-HOWTO, written by Andreas Könsgen DG3KQ -Internet: ajk@iehk.rwth-aachen.de +Internet: ajk@comnets.uni-bremen.de AMPR-net: dg3kq@db0pra.ampr.org AX.25: dg3kq@db0ach.#nrw.deu.eu diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 1df7f9cdab05..86eabe6c3419 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The remaining CPU time will be used for user input and other tasks. Because realtime tasks have explicitly allocated the CPU time they need to perform their tasks, buffer underruns in the graphics or audio can be eliminated. -NOTE: the above example is not fully implemented as of yet (2.6.25). We still +NOTE: the above example is not fully implemented yet. We still lack an EDF scheduler to make non-uniform periods usable. @@ -140,14 +140,15 @@ The other option is: .o CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED (aka "Basis for grouping tasks" = "Control groups") -This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and "/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_us" -to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead. +This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and +"/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_us" to control the CPU time reserved for each +control group instead. For more information on working with control groups, you should read Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well. -Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration -schedulable: +Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the +configuration schedulable: \Sum_{i} runtime_{i} / global_period <= global_runtime / global_period @@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ Implementing SCHED_EDF might take a while to complete. Priority Inheritance is the biggest challenge as the current linux PI infrastructure is geared towards the limited static priority levels 0-99. With deadline scheduling you need to do deadline inheritance (since priority is inversely proportional to the -deadline delta (deadline - now). +deadline delta (deadline - now)). This means the whole PI machinery will have to be reworked - and that is one of the most complex pieces of code we have. |