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switch to lockless lockup. write side now also increments sequence counter. On lookup, sample counter value and only take the lock if we did not find a match and the counter has changed. This avoids need to write to private area in normal (lookup) cases. In case we detect a writer (seqretry is true) we fall back to taking the readlock. The readlock is also used during dumps to ensure we get a consistent tree walk. Similar technique (rbtree+seqlock) was used by David Howells in rxrpc. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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.