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.
Waiman Long
authored
The kernel test robot has reported that the use of __this_cpu_add() causes bug messages like: BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ... Given the imprecise nature of the count and the possibility of resetting the count and doing the measurement again, this is not really a big problem to use the unprotected __this_cpu_*() functions. To make the preemption checking code happy, the this_cpu_*() functions will be used if CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is defined. The imprecise nature of the locking counts are also documented with the suggestion that we should run the measurement a few times with the counts reset in between to get a better picture of what is going on under the hood. Fixes: a8654596 ("locking/rwsem: Enable lock event counting") Suggested-by:Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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