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Commit 42fa566b authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/mutexes: Document quick lock release when unlocking



When unlocking, we always want to reach the slowpath with the lock's counter
indicating it is unlocked. -- as returned by the asm fastpath call or by
explicitly setting it. While doing so, at least in theory, we can optimize
and allow faster lock stealing.

When unlocking, we always want to reach the slowpath with the lock's counter
indicating it is unlocked. -- as returned by the asm fastpath call or by
explicitly setting it. While doing so, at least in theory, we can optimize
and allow faster lock stealing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 242489cf
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