"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Unless it was duplicate on purpose, to emphasize that a raw_spinlock_t
> is always a spinning lock regardless of PREEMPT_RT or kernel config,
> it's a bit odd that this text is duplicate. So, this patch just clean
> it up, keeping the consistency with the other sections of the text.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 919e9e6395cf ("Documentation: Add lock ordering and nesting documentation")
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> index bfa75ea1b66a..9933faad4771 100644
> --- a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> @@ -211,9 +211,6 @@ raw_spinlock_t and spinlock_t
> raw_spinlock_t
> --------------
>
> -raw_spinlock_t is a strict spinning lock implementation regardless of the
> -kernel configuration including PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels.
> -
> raw_spinlock_t is a strict spinning lock implementation in all kernels,
> including PREEMPT_RT kernels. Use raw_spinlock_t only in real critical
> core code, low-level interrupt handling and places where disabling
I don't think that was intentional. Applied, thanks.
For future reference, a far better changelog would have been something
like:
Remove the duplicated sentence from locktypes.rst
Thanks,
jon
