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With the upcoming cycle detector, we have to be careful about using btree_node_lock_nopath - in particular, using it to take write locks can cause deadlocks. All held locks need to be tracked in a btree_path, so that the cycle detector knows about them - unless we know that we cannot cause deadlocks for other reasons: e.g. we are only taking read locks, or we're in very early fsck (topology repair). 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.