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Currently, stack depot uses the following locking scheme: 1. Lock-free accesses when looking up a stack record, which allows to have multiple users to look up records in parallel; 2. Spinlock for protecting the stack depot pools and the hash table when adding a new record. For implementing the eviction of stack traces from stack depot, the lock-free approach is not going to work anymore, as we will need to be able to also remove records from the hash table. Convert the spinlock into a read/write lock, and drop the atomic accesses, as they are no longer required. Looking up stack traces is now protected by the read lock and adding new records - by the write lock. One of the following patches will add a new function for evicting stack records, which will be protected by the write lock as well. With this change, multiple users can still look up records in parallel. This is preparatory patch for implementing the eviction of stack records from the stack depot. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9f81ffcc4bb422ebb6326a65a770bf1918634cbb.1700502145.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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.