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mark_lock is a frequently taken lock, and there's also potential for deadlocks since currently bch2_clear_page_bits which is called from memory reclaim has to take it to drop disk reservations. The disk reservation get path takes it when it recalculates the number of sectors known to be available, but it's not really needed for consistency. We just want to make sure we only have one thread updating the sectors_available count, which we can do with a dedicated mutex. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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.