sched/core, locking: Document Program-Order guarantees
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:01:11 +0000 (19:01 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:33:41 +0000 (10:33 +0100)
commit8643cda549ca49a403160892db68504569ac9052
treee6a333ec181b60487584cbb3bca73e202d69c349
parentb3e0b1b6d841a4b2f64fc09ea728913da8218424
sched/core, locking: Document Program-Order guarantees

These are some notes on the scheduler locking and how it provides
program order guarantees on SMP systems.

( This commit is in the locking tree, because the new documentation
  refers to a newly introduced locking primitive. )

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/core.c