Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 21:37:11 EST


On Wednesday 30 July 2008 02:21:02 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:01:17 +1000 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Andrew suggested introducing "down_try" as a wrapper now, to make
> > the transition easier.
>
> Hi Rusty,
>
> Will you also be making updates to
> Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl ?

Hi Randy,

The section on sems has been removed in the latest Linus tree. We're
trying to bury semaphores, but it's not clear that will ever happen; hence
this bet-hedging patch.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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