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Boqun Feng f9eaaa82b4 workqueue: doc: Call out the non-reentrance conditions
The current doc of workqueue API suggests that work items are
non-reentrant: any work item is guaranteed to be executed by at most one
worker system-wide at any given time. However this is not true, the
following case can cause a work item W executed by two workers at
the same time:

        queue_work_on(0, WQ1, W);
        // after a worker picks up W and clear the pending bit
        queue_work_on(1, WQ2, W);
        // workers on CPU0 and CPU1 will execute W in the same time.

, which means the non-reentrance of a work item is conditional, and
Lai Jiangshan provided a nice summary[1] of the conditions, therefore
use it to describe a work item instance and improve the doc.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJhGHyDudet_xyNk=8xnuO2==o-u06s0E0GZVP4Q67nmQ84Ceg@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2021-10-25 07:18:40 -10:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.15 #4 2021-10-17 18:01:32 -10:00
block block-5.15-2021-10-17 2021-10-17 19:25:20 -10:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation workqueue: doc: Call out the non-reentrance conditions 2021-10-25 07:18:40 -10:00
drivers workqueue: Introduce show_one_worker_pool and show_one_workqueue. 2021-10-20 06:19:03 -10:00
fs vfs: check fd has read access in kernel_read_file_from_fd() 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
include workqueue: Introduce show_one_worker_pool and show_one_workqueue. 2021-10-20 06:19:03 -10:00
init bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in xbc_make_cmdline() 2021-10-10 22:27:40 -04:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel workqueue: Introduce show_one_worker_pool and show_one_workqueue. 2021-10-20 06:19:03 -10:00
lib linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.15-rc6 2021-10-11 17:25:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/thp: decrease nr_thps in file's mapping on THP split 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
net icmp: fix icmp_ext_echo_iio parsing in icmp_build_probe 2021-10-14 07:54:47 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Relicense bpf_insn.h as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause 2021-09-29 16:03:55 +02:00
scripts Tracing fixes for 5.15: 2021-10-16 10:51:41 -07:00
security Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ 2021-10-07 12:44:41 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for VF0770 2021-10-12 22:13:11 +02:00
tools mm/userfaultfd: selftests: fix memory corruption with thp enabled 2021-10-18 20:22:02 -10:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
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Makefile Linux 5.15-rc6 2021-10-17 20:00:13 -10:00
README

Linux kernel
============

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.