mutex subsystem, -V13 [LWN.net]

From:		Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To:		lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:		[patch 00/20] mutex subsystem, -V13
Date:		Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:06:24 +0100
Cc:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>


this is version -V13 of the generic mutex subsystem, against v2.6.15.

The patch-queue consists of the following 20 patches:

  add-atomic-xchg.patch
  add-function-typecheck.patch

  mutex-generic-asm-implementations.patch
  mutex-asm-mutex.h-i386.patch
  mutex-asm-mutex.h-x86_64.patch
  mutex-asm-mutex.h-arm.patch
  mutex-arch-mutex-h.patch
  mutex-core.patch

  mutex-docs.patch
  mutex-debug.patch
  mutex-debug-more.patch
  synchro-test.patch

  sem2mutex-xfs.patch
  sem2mutex-vfs-i-sem.patch
  sem2mutex-vfs-i-sem-more.patch
  sem2mutex-simple-ones.patch

  sem2completion-sx8.patch
  sem2completion-cpu5wdt.patch
  sem2completion-ide-gendev.patch
  sem2completion-loop.patch

the patches should work fine on every Linux architecture. They can also 
be downloaded from:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/generic-mutex-subsystem/

Changes since -V12:

 6 files changed, 644 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

 - added the synchronization primitives test module, by David Howells

   [ modified it to do default tests on bootup, if =y ]

 - cleaned up __mutex_lock_common(), removed two ugly gotos

 - other smaller cleanups

	Ingo
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