Chris Wilson
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In preparation for removing struct_mutex from around context retirement, we need to make timeline pinning and unpinning safe. Since multiple engines/contexts can share a single timeline, we cannot rely on borrowing the context mutex (otherwise we could state that the timeline is only pinned/unpinned inside the context pin/unpin and so guarded by it). However, we only perform a sequence of atomic operations inside the timeline pin/unpin and the sequence of those operations is safe for a concurrent unpin / pin, so we can relax the struct_mutex requirement. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190815205709.24285-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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.