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If we remember to cancel the signaler on a request when retiring it (after we know that the request has been signaled), we do not need to carry an additional request in the signaler itself. This prevents an issue whereby the signaler threads may be delayed and hold on to thousands of request references, causing severe memory fragmentation and premature oom (most noticeable on 32b snb due to the limited GFP_KERNEL and frequent use of inter-engine fences). v2: Rename first_signal(), document reads outside of locks. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180203101914.24880-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
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.