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Commit 9fd7fc34 authored by Nicholas Mc Guire's avatar Nicholas Mc Guire Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/lglocks: Add documentation of current lglocks implementation



Local/global locks are currently not documented anywhere other
than in an somewhat out-of-date LWN article - this is an attempt
to document the current state of lglocks.

This patch is against linux-next 3.18.0-rc6

Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Carsten Emde <c.emde@osadl.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141208083326.GA29895@opentech.at


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 6f008e72
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