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futex-requeue-pi.txt: standardize document format
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Sun, 14 May 2017 16:35:29 +0000 (13:35 -0300)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:51:35 +0000 (13:51 -0600)
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!

Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:

- promote level for the document title;
- mark literal blocks.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt

index 77b36f59d16b452bbf12bba4e3db83ec3ea84a9f..14ab5787b9a77cd485899c704aef0212634aa212 100644 (file)
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+================
 Futex Requeue PI
-----------------
+================
 
 Requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex requires
 special handling in order to ensure the underlying rt_mutex is never
@@ -20,28 +21,28 @@ implementation would wake the highest-priority waiter, and leave the
 rest to the natural wakeup inherent in unlocking the mutex
 associated with the condvar.
 
-Consider the simplified glibc calls:
-
-/* caller must lock mutex */
-pthread_cond_wait(cond, mutex)
-{
-       lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       unlock(mutex);
-       do {
-          unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-          futex_wait(cond->__data.__futex);
-          lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       } while(...)
-       unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       lock(mutex);
-}
-
-pthread_cond_broadcast(cond)
-{
-       lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       futex_requeue(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
-}
+Consider the simplified glibc calls::
+
+       /* caller must lock mutex */
+       pthread_cond_wait(cond, mutex)
+       {
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               unlock(mutex);
+               do {
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               futex_wait(cond->__data.__futex);
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               } while(...)
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               lock(mutex);
+       }
+
+       pthread_cond_broadcast(cond)
+       {
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               futex_requeue(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
+       }
 
 Once pthread_cond_broadcast() requeues the tasks, the cond->mutex
 has waiters. Note that pthread_cond_wait() attempts to lock the
@@ -53,29 +54,29 @@ In order to support PI-aware pthread_condvar's, the kernel needs to
 be able to requeue tasks to PI futexes.  This support implies that
 upon a successful futex_wait system call, the caller would return to
 user space already holding the PI futex.  The glibc implementation
-would be modified as follows:
-
-
-/* caller must lock mutex */
-pthread_cond_wait_pi(cond, mutex)
-{
-       lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       unlock(mutex);
-       do {
-          unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-          futex_wait_requeue_pi(cond->__data.__futex);
-          lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       } while(...)
-       unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-        /* the kernel acquired the mutex for us */
-}
-
-pthread_cond_broadcast_pi(cond)
-{
-       lock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
-       futex_requeue_pi(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
-}
+would be modified as follows::
+
+
+       /* caller must lock mutex */
+       pthread_cond_wait_pi(cond, mutex)
+       {
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               unlock(mutex);
+               do {
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               futex_wait_requeue_pi(cond->__data.__futex);
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               } while(...)
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               /* the kernel acquired the mutex for us */
+       }
+
+       pthread_cond_broadcast_pi(cond)
+       {
+               lock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               unlock(cond->__data.__lock);
+               futex_requeue_pi(cond->data.__futex, cond->mutex);
+       }
 
 The actual glibc implementation will likely test for PI and make the
 necessary changes inside the existing calls rather than creating new