350175bf9b
This improves the nocow lock table so that hash table entries have multiple locks, and locks specify which bucket they're for - i.e. we can now resolve hash collisions. This is important because the allocator has to skip buckets that are locked in the nocow lock table, and previously hash collisions would cause it to spuriously skip unlocked buckets. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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.