Hi, This is v2 of the seqlock patch series: [PATCH v1 00/25] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200519214547.352050-1-a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Patches 1=>3 of this v2 series add documentation for the existing seqlock.h datatypes and APIs. Hopefully they can hit v5.8 -rc2 or -rc3. Changelog-v2 ============ 1. Drop, for now, the seqlock v1 patches #7 and #8. These patches added lockdep non-preemptibility checks to seqcount_t write paths, but they now depend on on-going work by Peter: [PATCH v3 0/5] lockdep: Change IRQ state tracking to use per-cpu variables https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529213550.683440625@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [PATCH 00/14] x86/entry: disallow #DB more and x86/entry lockdep/nmi https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529212728.795169701@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Once Peter's work get merged, I'll send the non-preemptibility checks as a separate series. 2. Drop the v1 seqcount_t call-sites bugfixes. I've already posted them in an isolated series. They got merged into their respective trees, and will hit v5.8-rc1 soon: [PATCH v2 0/6] seqlock: seqcount_t call sites bugfixes https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603144949.1122421-1-a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 3. Patch #1: Add a small paragraph explaining that seqcount_t/seqlock_t cannot be used if the protected data contains pointers. A similar paragraph already existed in seqlock.h, but got mistakenly dropped. 4. Patch #2: Don't add RST directives inside kernel-doc comments. Peter doesn't like them :) I've kept the indentation though, and found a minimal way for Sphinx to properly render these code samples without too much disruption. 5. Patch #3: Brush up the introduced kernel-doc comments. Make them more consistent overall, and more concise. Thanks, 8<-------------- Ahmed S. Darwish (18): Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples seqlock: Add missing kernel-doc annotations seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks dma-buf: Remove custom seqcount lockdep class key dma-buf: Use sequence counter with associated wound/wait mutex sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock Documentation/locking/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst | 242 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 2 +- block/blk-iocost.c | 5 +- drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c | 15 +- .../gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm.c | 2 - drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +- drivers/md/raid5.h | 2 +- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- fs/fs_struct.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 2 +- fs/userfaultfd.c | 4 +- include/linux/dcache.h | 2 +- include/linux/dma-resv.h | 4 +- include/linux/fs_struct.h | 2 +- include/linux/hrtimer.h | 2 +- include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- include/linux/seqlock.h | 855 ++++++++++++++---- include/linux/seqlock_types_internal.h | 187 ++++ include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h | 2 +- init/init_task.c | 3 +- kernel/fork.c | 2 +- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 13 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 19 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 5 +- net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 4 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 10 +- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 +- 30 files changed, 1175 insertions(+), 226 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst create mode 100644 include/linux/seqlock_types_internal.h base-commit: 3d77e6a8804abcc0504c904bd6e5cdf3a5cf8162 -- 2.20.1