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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
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@@ -1961,6 +1961,12 @@ machines due to caching.
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="apiref">
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<title>Mutex API reference</title>
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!Iinclude/linux/mutex.h
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!Ekernel/mutex.c
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="references">
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<title>Further reading</title>
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mutex semantics are sufficient for your code, then there are a couple
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of advantages of mutexes:
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- 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: .e.g on x86,
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- 'struct mutex' is smaller on most architectures: E.g. on x86,
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'struct semaphore' is 20 bytes, 'struct mutex' is 16 bytes.
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A smaller structure size means less RAM footprint, and better
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CPU-cache utilization.
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@@ -136,3 +136,4 @@ the APIs of 'struct mutex' have been streamlined:
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void mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass);
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int mutex_lock_interruptible_nested(struct mutex *lock,
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unsigned int subclass);
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int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock);
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