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The kernfs implementation has big lock granularity(kernfs_rwsem) so every kernfs-based(e.g., sysfs, cgroup) fs are able to compete the lock. It makes trouble for some cases to wait the global lock for a long time even though they are totally independent contexts each other. A general example is process A goes under direct reclaim with holding the lock when it accessed the file in sysfs and process B is waiting the lock with exclusive mode and then process C is waiting the lock until process B could finish the job after it gets the lock from process A. This patch switches the global kernfs_rwsem to per-fs lock, which put the rwsem into kernfs_root. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118230008.2679780-1-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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.