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Normally waiting for a page to become unlocked, or locking the page, requires waiting for IO to complete. Add support for lock_page_async() and wait_on_page_locked_async(), which are callback based instead. This allows a caller to get notified when a page becomes unlocked, rather than wait for it. We add a new iocb field, ki_waitq, to pass in the necessary data for this to happen. We can unionize this with ki_cookie, since that is only used for polled IO. Polled IO can never co-exist with async callbacks, as it is (by definition) polled completions. struct wait_page_key is made public, and we define struct wait_page_async as the interface between the caller and the core. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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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.