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This change allows trylock to steal the lock. It also allows the initial lock attempt to steal the lock rather than bailing out and going to the slow path. This gives trylock more strength: without this a continually-contended lock will never permit a trylock to succeed. With this change, the trylock has a small but non-zero chance. It also gives the lock fastpath most of the benefit of passing the reservation back through to the steal loop in the slow path without the complexity. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-13-npiggin@gmail.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.