From 773810d30e7d81b8308fea272ed2ec3d832a6018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 06:46:19 -0300 Subject: robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format Each text file under Documentation follows a different format. Some doesn't even have titles! Change its representation to follow the adopted standard, using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx: - add a title for the document; - mark literal blocks; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt index 61c22d608759..6c42c75103eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt +++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -Started by: Ingo Molnar +======================================== +A description of what robust futexes are +======================================== + +:Started by: Ingo Molnar Background ---------- @@ -163,7 +167,7 @@ Implementation details ---------------------- The patch adds two new syscalls: one to register the userspace list, and -one to query the registered list pointer: +one to query the registered list pointer:: asmlinkage long sys_set_robust_list(struct robust_list_head __user *head, @@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ straightforward. The kernel doesn't have any internal distinction between robust and normal futexes. If a futex is found to be held at exit time, the kernel sets the -following bit of the futex word: +following bit of the futex word:: #define FUTEX_OWNER_DIED 0x40000000 @@ -193,7 +197,7 @@ and wakes up the next futex waiter (if any). User-space does the rest of the cleanup. Otherwise, robust futexes are acquired by glibc by putting the TID into -the futex field atomically. Waiters set the FUTEX_WAITERS bit: +the futex field atomically. Waiters set the FUTEX_WAITERS bit:: #define FUTEX_WAITERS 0x80000000 -- cgit v1.2.3