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By default, this driver places a read lock around all user data fetches and a write lock around all user data modifying operations (e.g. WRITE commands). These locks have "per store" granularity. Other drivers that have a similar function (e.g. null_blk) do not take this data integrity step and run significantly faster in some tests. In the common case of a (simulated) device to device copy (e.g. what dd and its variants do) there should be no need for locks around data accesses. So add the driver and sysfs parameter no_rwlock which is boolean and when set does what its name suggests. The default is false for backward comaptibility. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220109012853.301953-7-dgilbert@interlog.com Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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.