Re: New manpage: locking(9)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <trinity-286f8fb9-ca13-44b1-98d1-8563499c99d4-1434647933661@3capp-mailcom-bs15>,
Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
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>I'm attaching a proposition of locking(9).
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>It was inspired by:
>http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=locking&section=ANY
>https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=locking%289%29
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>And by this page:
>http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20080409_0027.html
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>I included some extra notes about the kernel design and contexts:
>- thread context vs softirq context vs hardirq context,
>- process vs kernel thread (LWP),
>- top kernel half vs bottom kernel half.
>
>These details might be off topic, but I need them to understand the
>overall design and the internal flow.

That's very nice. I would like to include information on what is the
typical use for each one and also which ones are obsolete. I also think
that *tsleep should be included in the docs (at least saying that it has
been replaced by condvars).

christos