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Constructing the name takes the majority of the time for allocating a sync_file to wrap a fence, and the name is very rarely used (only via the sync_file status user interface). To reduce the impact on the common path (that of creating sync_file to pass around), defer the construction of the name until it is first used. v2: Update kerneldoc (kbuild test robot) v3: sync_debug.c was peeking at the name v4: Comment upon the potential race between two users of sync_file_get_name() and claim that such a race is below the level of notice. However, to prevent any future nuisance, use a global spinlock to serialize the assignment of the name. v5: Completely avoid the read/write race by only storing the name passed in from the user inside sync_file->user_name and passing in a buffer to dynamically construct the name otherwise. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170516111042.24719-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.