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Message-Id: <14a19b89bc2ca613d5bc2436722e02d4e92de33d.1497713221.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:26:48 -0300
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
To: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/26] robust-futex-ABI.txt: standardize document format
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!
Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:
- promote document title;
- use :Author: for authorship;
- mark literal blocks;
- add blank lines.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
---
Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
index 16eb314f56cc..8a5d34abf726 100644
--- a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-Started by Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
-
+====================
The robust futex ABI
---------------------
+====================
+
+:Author: Started by Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
+
Robust_futexes provide a mechanism that is used in addition to normal
futexes, for kernel assist of cleanup of held locks on task exit.
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ probably causing deadlock or other such failure of the other threads
waiting on the same locks.
A thread that anticipates possibly using robust_futexes should first
-issue the system call:
+issue the system call::
asmlinkage long
sys_set_robust_list(struct robust_list_head __user *head, size_t len);
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ that lock using the futex mechanism.
When a thread has invoked the above system call to indicate it
anticipates using robust_futexes, the kernel stores the passed in 'head'
pointer for that task. The task may retrieve that value later on by
-using the system call:
+using the system call::
asmlinkage long
sys_get_robust_list(int pid, struct robust_list_head __user **head_ptr,
@@ -135,6 +137,7 @@ manipulating this list), the user code must observe the following
protocol on 'lock entry' insertion and removal:
On insertion:
+
1) set the 'list_op_pending' word to the address of the 'lock entry'
to be inserted,
2) acquire the futex lock,
@@ -143,6 +146,7 @@ On insertion:
4) clear the 'list_op_pending' word.
On removal:
+
1) set the 'list_op_pending' word to the address of the 'lock entry'
to be removed,
2) remove the lock entry for this lock from the 'head' list,
--
2.9.4
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