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Commit 00bcf5cd authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - rwsem micro-optimizations (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Improve the implementation and optimize the performance of
     percpu-rwsems. (Peter Zijlstra.)

   - Convert all lglock users to better facilities such as percpu-rwsems
     or percpu-spinlocks and remove lglocks. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Remove the ticket (spin)lock implementation. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Korean translation of memory-barriers.txt and related fixes to the
     English document. (SeongJae Park)

   - misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/cmpxchg, locking/atomics: Remove superfluous definitions
  x86, locking/spinlocks: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementation
  locking/lglock: Remove lglock implementation
  stop_machine: Remove stop_cpus_lock and lg_double_lock/unlock()
  fs/locks: Use percpu_down_read_preempt_disable()
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Add down_read_preempt_disable()
  fs/locks: Replace lg_local with a per-cpu spinlock
  fs/locks: Replace lg_global with a percpu-rwsem
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Add DEFINE_STATIC_PERCPU_RWSEMand percpu_rwsem_assert_held()
  locking/pv-qspinlock: Use cmpxchg_release() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
  locking/rwsem, x86: Drop a bogus cc clobber
  futex: Add some more function commentry
  locking/hung_task: Show all locks
  locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once
  locking/rwsem: Remove a few useless comments
  locking/rwsem: Return void in __rwsem_mark_wake()
  locking, rcu, cgroup: Avoid synchronize_sched() in __cgroup_procs_write()
  locking/Documentation: Add Korean translation
  locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result
  locking/Documentation: Fix wrong section reference
  ...
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