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Commit 3469d261 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'locking-rwsem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull support for killable rwsems from Ingo Molnar:
 "This, by Michal Hocko, implements down_write_killable().

  The main usecase will be to update mm_sem usage sites to use this new
  API, to allow the mm-reaper introduced in commit aac45363 ("mm,
  oom: introduce oom reaper") to tear down oom victim address spaces
  asynchronously with minimum latencies and without deadlock worries"

[ The vfs will want it too as the inode lock is changed from a mutex to
  a rwsem due to the parallel lookup and readdir updates ]

* 'locking-rwsem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/rwsem: Fix comment on register clobbering
  locking/rwsem: Fix down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, x86: Add frame annotation for call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable()
  locking/rwsem: Provide down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, x86: Provide __down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, s390: Provide __down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, ia64: Provide __down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, alpha: Provide __down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem: Introduce basis for down_write_killable()
  locking/rwsem, sparc: Drop superfluous arch specific implementation
  locking/rwsem, sh: Drop superfluous arch specific implementation
  locking/rwsem, xtensa: Drop superfluous arch specific implementation
  locking/rwsem: Drop explicit memory barriers
  locking/rwsem: Get rid of __down_write_nested()
parents 1c19b68a 4544ba8c
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