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There are two reasons why mutex is better here: 1. There's a critical section relatively long, where in certain scenarios (e.g., multiple VM allocations) taking a spinlock might cause noticeable performance degradation. 2. It will remove the incorrect usage of mutex under spin_lock (where preemption is disabled). Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Koby Elbaz <kelbaz@habana.ai> Reviewed-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
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.