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David Sterba 88c14590cd btrfs: use RCU in btrfs_show_devname for device list traversal
The show_devname callback is used to print device name in
/proc/self/mounts, we need to traverse the device list consistently and
read the name that's copied to a seq buffer so we don't need further
locking.

If the first device is being deleted at the same time, the RCU will
allow us to read the device name, though it will become stale right
after the RCU protection ends. This is unavoidable and the user can
expect that the device will disappear from the filesystem's list at some
point.

The device_list_mutex was pretty heavy as it is used eg. for writing
superblock and a few other IO related contexts. This can stall any
application that reads the proc file for no reason.

Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-03-31 02:01:06 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation Staging/IIO fixes for 4.16-rc7 2018-03-23 11:11:32 -07:00
drivers dmaengine fixes for v4.16-rc7 2018-03-25 07:45:10 -10:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs btrfs: use RCU in btrfs_show_devname for device list traversal 2018-03-31 02:01:06 +02:00
include btrfs: qgroup: Update trace events for metadata reservation 2018-03-31 02:01:05 +02:00
init jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
ipc Revert "mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount" 2018-03-24 19:34:23 -05:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:34:50 -10:00
lib libcrc32c: Add crc32c_impl function 2018-03-26 15:09:38 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm, thp: do not cause memcg oom for thp 2018-03-22 17:07:02 -07:00
net Two more fixes (in three patches): 2018-03-22 13:19:10 -04:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts kbuild: Handle builtin dtb file names containing hyphens 2018-03-09 01:14:38 +09:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable 2018-03-22 10:40:27 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
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Makefile Linux 4.16-rc7 2018-03-25 12:44:30 -10:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.