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Use an rwlock instead of spinlock for the global notifier lock to reduce risk of contention in execbuf. Protect object state with the object lock whenever possible rather than with the global notifier lock Don't take an explicit page_ref in userptr_submit_init() but rather call get_pages() after obtaining the page list so that get_pages() holds the page_ref. This means we don't need to call userptr_submit_fini(), which is needed to avoid awkward locking in our upcoming VM_BIND code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210610143525.624677-1-thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com
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.