Commit 5fca80e8 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] lockdep: add more rwsem.h documentation

Add more documentation to rwsem.h.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent f9829cce
......@@ -61,12 +61,25 @@ extern void downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/*
* nested locking:
* nested locking. NOTE: rwsems are not allowed to recurse
* (which occurs if the same task tries to acquire the same
* lock instance multiple times), but multiple locks of the
* same lock class might be taken, if the order of the locks
* is always the same. This ordering rule can be expressed
* to lockdep via the _nested() APIs, but enumerating the
* subclasses that are used. (If the nesting relationship is
* static then another method for expressing nested locking is
* the explicit definition of lock class keys and the use of
* lockdep_set_class() at lock initialization time.
* See Documentation/lockdep-design.txt for more details.)
*/
extern void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
/*
* Take/release a lock when not the owner will release it:
* Take/release a lock when not the owner will release it.
*
* [ This API should be avoided as much as possible - the
* proper abstraction for this case is completions. ]
*/
extern void down_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void up_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
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