Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
  massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
  *really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
  those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
  around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
  will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.

  Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
  scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
  of fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
  Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
  zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
  tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
  docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
  docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
  Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
  mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
  Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
  nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
  Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
  Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
  Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
  docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
  docs: move digsig docs to the security book
  docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
  docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
  docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
  docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
  ...

10 files changed, 1325 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/locking/futex-requeue-pi.rst b/Documentation/locking/futex-requeue-pi.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..14ab5787b9a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/futex-requeue-pi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+================
+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
+left without an owner if it has waiters; doing so would break the PI
+boosting logic [see rt-mutex-desgin.txt] For the purposes of
+brevity, this action will be referred to as "requeue_pi" throughout
+this document.  Priority inheritance is abbreviated throughout as
+"PI".
+
+Motivation
+----------
+
+Without requeue_pi, the glibc implementation of
+pthread_cond_broadcast() must resort to waking all the tasks waiting
+on a pthread_condvar and letting them try to sort out which task
+gets to run first in classic thundering-herd formation.  An ideal
+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);
+	}
+
+Once pthread_cond_broadcast() requeues the tasks, the cond->mutex
+has waiters. Note that pthread_cond_wait() attempts to lock the
+mutex only after it has returned to user space.  This will leave the
+underlying rt_mutex with waiters, and no owner, breaking the
+previously mentioned PI-boosting algorithms.
+
+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);
+	}
+
+The actual glibc implementation will likely test for PI and make the
+necessary changes inside the existing calls rather than creating new
+calls for the PI cases.  Similar changes are needed for
+pthread_cond_timedwait() and pthread_cond_signal().
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+In order to ensure the rt_mutex has an owner if it has waiters, it
+is necessary for both the requeue code, as well as the waiting code,
+to be able to acquire the rt_mutex before returning to user space.
+The requeue code cannot simply wake the waiter and leave it to
+acquire the rt_mutex as it would open a race window between the
+requeue call returning to user space and the waiter waking and
+starting to run.  This is especially true in the uncontended case.
+
+The solution involves two new rt_mutex helper routines,
+rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() and rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock(), which
+allow the requeue code to acquire an uncontended rt_mutex on behalf
+of the waiter and to enqueue the waiter on a contended rt_mutex.
+Two new system calls provide the kernel<->user interface to
+requeue_pi: FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI.
+
+FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI is called by the waiter (pthread_cond_wait()
+and pthread_cond_timedwait()) to block on the initial futex and wait
+to be requeued to a PI-aware futex.  The implementation is the
+result of a high-speed collision between futex_wait() and
+futex_lock_pi(), with some extra logic to check for the additional
+wake-up scenarios.
+
+FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI is called by the waker
+(pthread_cond_broadcast() and pthread_cond_signal()) to requeue and
+possibly wake the waiting tasks. Internally, this system call is
+still handled by futex_requeue (by passing requeue_pi=1).  Before
+requeueing, futex_requeue() attempts to acquire the requeue target
+PI futex on behalf of the top waiter.  If it can, this waiter is
+woken.  futex_requeue() then proceeds to requeue the remaining
+nr_wake+nr_requeue tasks to the PI futex, calling
+rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() prior to each requeue to prepare the
+task as a waiter on the underlying rt_mutex.  It is possible that
+the lock can be acquired at this stage as well, if so, the next
+waiter is woken to finish the acquisition of the lock.
+
+FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI accepts nr_wake and nr_requeue as arguments, but
+their sum is all that really matters.  futex_requeue() will wake or
+requeue up to nr_wake + nr_requeue tasks.  It will wake only as many
+tasks as it can acquire the lock for, which in the majority of cases
+should be 0 as good programming practice dictates that the caller of
+either pthread_cond_broadcast() or pthread_cond_signal() acquire the
+mutex prior to making the call. FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI requires that
+nr_wake=1.  nr_requeue should be INT_MAX for broadcast and 0 for
+signal.
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/hwspinlock.rst b/Documentation/locking/hwspinlock.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f03713b7003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/hwspinlock.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,485 @@
+===========================
+Hardware Spinlock Framework
+===========================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Hardware spinlock modules provide hardware assistance for synchronization
+and mutual exclusion between heterogeneous processors and those not operating
+under a single, shared operating system.
+
+For example, OMAP4 has dual Cortex-A9, dual Cortex-M3 and a C64x+ DSP,
+each of which is running a different Operating System (the master, A9,
+is usually running Linux and the slave processors, the M3 and the DSP,
+are running some flavor of RTOS).
+
+A generic hwspinlock framework allows platform-independent drivers to use
+the hwspinlock device in order to access data structures that are shared
+between remote processors, that otherwise have no alternative mechanism
+to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion operations.
+
+This is necessary, for example, for Inter-processor communications:
+on OMAP4, cpu-intensive multimedia tasks are offloaded by the host to the
+remote M3 and/or C64x+ slave processors (by an IPC subsystem called Syslink).
+
+To achieve fast message-based communications, a minimal kernel support
+is needed to deliver messages arriving from a remote processor to the
+appropriate user process.
+
+This communication is based on simple data structures that is shared between
+the remote processors, and access to it is synchronized using the hwspinlock
+module (remote processor directly places new messages in this shared data
+structure).
+
+A common hwspinlock interface makes it possible to have generic, platform-
+independent, drivers.
+
+User API
+========
+
+::
+
+  struct hwspinlock *hwspin_lock_request(void);
+
+Dynamically assign an hwspinlock and return its address, or NULL
+in case an unused hwspinlock isn't available. Users of this
+API will usually want to communicate the lock's id to the remote core
+before it can be used to achieve synchronization.
+
+Should be called from a process context (might sleep).
+
+::
+
+  struct hwspinlock *hwspin_lock_request_specific(unsigned int id);
+
+Assign a specific hwspinlock id and return its address, or NULL
+if that hwspinlock is already in use. Usually board code will
+be calling this function in order to reserve specific hwspinlock
+ids for predefined purposes.
+
+Should be called from a process context (might sleep).
+
+::
+
+  int of_hwspin_lock_get_id(struct device_node *np, int index);
+
+Retrieve the global lock id for an OF phandle-based specific lock.
+This function provides a means for DT users of a hwspinlock module
+to get the global lock id of a specific hwspinlock, so that it can
+be requested using the normal hwspin_lock_request_specific() API.
+
+The function returns a lock id number on success, -EPROBE_DEFER if
+the hwspinlock device is not yet registered with the core, or other
+error values.
+
+Should be called from a process context (might sleep).
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_free(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Free a previously-assigned hwspinlock; returns 0 on success, or an
+appropriate error code on failure (e.g. -EINVAL if the hwspinlock
+is already free).
+
+Should be called from a process context (might sleep).
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_timeout(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int timeout);
+
+Lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock with a timeout limit (specified in
+msecs). If the hwspinlock is already taken, the function will busy loop
+waiting for it to be released, but give up when the timeout elapses.
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption is disabled so
+the caller must not sleep, and is advised to release the hwspinlock as
+soon as possible, in order to minimize remote cores polling on the
+hardware interconnect.
+
+Returns 0 when successful and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -ETIMEDOUT if the hwspinlock is still busy after timeout msecs).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_timeout_irq(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int timeout);
+
+Lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock with a timeout limit (specified in
+msecs). If the hwspinlock is already taken, the function will busy loop
+waiting for it to be released, but give up when the timeout elapses.
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption and the local
+interrupts are disabled, so the caller must not sleep, and is advised to
+release the hwspinlock as soon as possible.
+
+Returns 0 when successful and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -ETIMEDOUT if the hwspinlock is still busy after timeout msecs).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_timeout_irqsave(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int to,
+				  unsigned long *flags);
+
+Lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock with a timeout limit (specified in
+msecs). If the hwspinlock is already taken, the function will busy loop
+waiting for it to be released, but give up when the timeout elapses.
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption is disabled,
+local interrupts are disabled and their previous state is saved at the
+given flags placeholder. The caller must not sleep, and is advised to
+release the hwspinlock as soon as possible.
+
+Returns 0 when successful and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -ETIMEDOUT if the hwspinlock is still busy after timeout msecs).
+
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_timeout_raw(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int timeout);
+
+Lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock with a timeout limit (specified in
+msecs). If the hwspinlock is already taken, the function will busy loop
+waiting for it to be released, but give up when the timeout elapses.
+
+Caution: User must protect the routine of getting hardware lock with mutex
+or spinlock to avoid dead-lock, that will let user can do some time-consuming
+or sleepable operations under the hardware lock.
+
+Returns 0 when successful and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -ETIMEDOUT if the hwspinlock is still busy after timeout msecs).
+
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_timeout_in_atomic(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned int to);
+
+Lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock with a timeout limit (specified in
+msecs). If the hwspinlock is already taken, the function will busy loop
+waiting for it to be released, but give up when the timeout elapses.
+
+This function shall be called only from an atomic context and the timeout
+value shall not exceed a few msecs.
+
+Returns 0 when successful and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -ETIMEDOUT if the hwspinlock is still busy after timeout msecs).
+
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_trylock(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+
+Attempt to lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock, but immediately fail if
+it is already taken.
+
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption is disabled so
+caller must not sleep, and is advised to release the hwspinlock as soon as
+possible, in order to minimize remote cores polling on the hardware
+interconnect.
+
+Returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -EBUSY if the hwspinlock was already taken).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_trylock_irq(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+
+Attempt to lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock, but immediately fail if
+it is already taken.
+
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption and the local
+interrupts are disabled so caller must not sleep, and is advised to
+release the hwspinlock as soon as possible.
+
+Returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -EBUSY if the hwspinlock was already taken).
+
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_trylock_irqsave(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned long *flags);
+
+Attempt to lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock, but immediately fail if
+it is already taken.
+
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption is disabled,
+the local interrupts are disabled and their previous state is saved
+at the given flags placeholder. The caller must not sleep, and is advised
+to release the hwspinlock as soon as possible.
+
+Returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -EBUSY if the hwspinlock was already taken).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_trylock_raw(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Attempt to lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock, but immediately fail if
+it is already taken.
+
+Caution: User must protect the routine of getting hardware lock with mutex
+or spinlock to avoid dead-lock, that will let user can do some time-consuming
+or sleepable operations under the hardware lock.
+
+Returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -EBUSY if the hwspinlock was already taken).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_trylock_in_atomic(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Attempt to lock a previously-assigned hwspinlock, but immediately fail if
+it is already taken.
+
+This function shall be called only from an atomic context.
+
+Returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code otherwise (most
+notably -EBUSY if the hwspinlock was already taken).
+The function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  void hwspin_unlock(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Unlock a previously-locked hwspinlock. Always succeed, and can be called
+from any context (the function never sleeps).
+
+.. note::
+
+  code should **never** unlock an hwspinlock which is already unlocked
+  (there is no protection against this).
+
+::
+
+  void hwspin_unlock_irq(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Unlock a previously-locked hwspinlock and enable local interrupts.
+The caller should **never** unlock an hwspinlock which is already unlocked.
+
+Doing so is considered a bug (there is no protection against this).
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption and local
+interrupts are enabled. This function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  void
+  hwspin_unlock_irqrestore(struct hwspinlock *hwlock, unsigned long *flags);
+
+Unlock a previously-locked hwspinlock.
+
+The caller should **never** unlock an hwspinlock which is already unlocked.
+Doing so is considered a bug (there is no protection against this).
+Upon a successful return from this function, preemption is reenabled,
+and the state of the local interrupts is restored to the state saved at
+the given flags. This function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  void hwspin_unlock_raw(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Unlock a previously-locked hwspinlock.
+
+The caller should **never** unlock an hwspinlock which is already unlocked.
+Doing so is considered a bug (there is no protection against this).
+This function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  void hwspin_unlock_in_atomic(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Unlock a previously-locked hwspinlock.
+
+The caller should **never** unlock an hwspinlock which is already unlocked.
+Doing so is considered a bug (there is no protection against this).
+This function will never sleep.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_get_id(struct hwspinlock *hwlock);
+
+Retrieve id number of a given hwspinlock. This is needed when an
+hwspinlock is dynamically assigned: before it can be used to achieve
+mutual exclusion with a remote cpu, the id number should be communicated
+to the remote task with which we want to synchronize.
+
+Returns the hwspinlock id number, or -EINVAL if hwlock is null.
+
+Typical usage
+=============
+
+::
+
+	#include <linux/hwspinlock.h>
+	#include <linux/err.h>
+
+	int hwspinlock_example1(void)
+	{
+		struct hwspinlock *hwlock;
+		int ret;
+
+		/* dynamically assign a hwspinlock */
+		hwlock = hwspin_lock_request();
+		if (!hwlock)
+			...
+
+		id = hwspin_lock_get_id(hwlock);
+		/* probably need to communicate id to a remote processor now */
+
+		/* take the lock, spin for 1 sec if it's already taken */
+		ret = hwspin_lock_timeout(hwlock, 1000);
+		if (ret)
+			...
+
+		/*
+		* we took the lock, do our thing now, but do NOT sleep
+		*/
+
+		/* release the lock */
+		hwspin_unlock(hwlock);
+
+		/* free the lock */
+		ret = hwspin_lock_free(hwlock);
+		if (ret)
+			...
+
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	int hwspinlock_example2(void)
+	{
+		struct hwspinlock *hwlock;
+		int ret;
+
+		/*
+		* assign a specific hwspinlock id - this should be called early
+		* by board init code.
+		*/
+		hwlock = hwspin_lock_request_specific(PREDEFINED_LOCK_ID);
+		if (!hwlock)
+			...
+
+		/* try to take it, but don't spin on it */
+		ret = hwspin_trylock(hwlock);
+		if (!ret) {
+			pr_info("lock is already taken\n");
+			return -EBUSY;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		* we took the lock, do our thing now, but do NOT sleep
+		*/
+
+		/* release the lock */
+		hwspin_unlock(hwlock);
+
+		/* free the lock */
+		ret = hwspin_lock_free(hwlock);
+		if (ret)
+			...
+
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+
+API for implementors
+====================
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_register(struct hwspinlock_device *bank, struct device *dev,
+		const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops, int base_id, int num_locks);
+
+To be called from the underlying platform-specific implementation, in
+order to register a new hwspinlock device (which is usually a bank of
+numerous locks). Should be called from a process context (this function
+might sleep).
+
+Returns 0 on success, or appropriate error code on failure.
+
+::
+
+  int hwspin_lock_unregister(struct hwspinlock_device *bank);
+
+To be called from the underlying vendor-specific implementation, in order
+to unregister an hwspinlock device (which is usually a bank of numerous
+locks).
+
+Should be called from a process context (this function might sleep).
+
+Returns the address of hwspinlock on success, or NULL on error (e.g.
+if the hwspinlock is still in use).
+
+Important structs
+=================
+
+struct hwspinlock_device is a device which usually contains a bank
+of hardware locks. It is registered by the underlying hwspinlock
+implementation using the hwspin_lock_register() API.
+
+::
+
+	/**
+	* struct hwspinlock_device - a device which usually spans numerous hwspinlocks
+	* @dev: underlying device, will be used to invoke runtime PM api
+	* @ops: platform-specific hwspinlock handlers
+	* @base_id: id index of the first lock in this device
+	* @num_locks: number of locks in this device
+	* @lock: dynamically allocated array of 'struct hwspinlock'
+	*/
+	struct hwspinlock_device {
+		struct device *dev;
+		const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops;
+		int base_id;
+		int num_locks;
+		struct hwspinlock lock[0];
+	};
+
+struct hwspinlock_device contains an array of hwspinlock structs, each
+of which represents a single hardware lock::
+
+	/**
+	* struct hwspinlock - this struct represents a single hwspinlock instance
+	* @bank: the hwspinlock_device structure which owns this lock
+	* @lock: initialized and used by hwspinlock core
+	* @priv: private data, owned by the underlying platform-specific hwspinlock drv
+	*/
+	struct hwspinlock {
+		struct hwspinlock_device *bank;
+		spinlock_t lock;
+		void *priv;
+	};
+
+When registering a bank of locks, the hwspinlock driver only needs to
+set the priv members of the locks. The rest of the members are set and
+initialized by the hwspinlock core itself.
+
+Implementation callbacks
+========================
+
+There are three possible callbacks defined in 'struct hwspinlock_ops'::
+
+	struct hwspinlock_ops {
+		int (*trylock)(struct hwspinlock *lock);
+		void (*unlock)(struct hwspinlock *lock);
+		void (*relax)(struct hwspinlock *lock);
+	};
+
+The first two callbacks are mandatory:
+
+The ->trylock() callback should make a single attempt to take the lock, and
+return 0 on failure and 1 on success. This callback may **not** sleep.
+
+The ->unlock() callback releases the lock. It always succeed, and it, too,
+may **not** sleep.
+
+The ->relax() callback is optional. It is called by hwspinlock core while
+spinning on a lock, and can be used by the underlying implementation to force
+a delay between two successive invocations of ->trylock(). It may **not** sleep.
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/index.rst b/Documentation/locking/index.rst
index 5d6800a723dc..d785878cad65 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/index.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ locking
     rt-mutex
     spinlocks
     ww-mutex-design
+    preempt-locking
+    pi-futex
+    futex-requeue-pi
+    hwspinlock
+    percpu-rw-semaphore
+    robust-futexes
+    robust-futex-ABI
 
 .. only::  subproject and html
 
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
index 5bcb99ba7bd9..8012a74555e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ stutter
 		  same period of time.  Defaults to "stutter=5", so as
 		  to run and pause for (roughly) five-second intervals.
 		  Specifying "stutter=0" causes the test to run continuously
-		  without pausing, which is the old default behavior.
+		  without pausing.
 
 shuffle_interval
 		  The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst b/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..247de6410855
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+====================
+Percpu rw semaphores
+====================
+
+Percpu rw semaphores is a new read-write semaphore design that is
+optimized for locking for reading.
+
+The problem with traditional read-write semaphores is that when multiple
+cores take the lock for reading, the cache line containing the semaphore
+is bouncing between L1 caches of the cores, causing performance
+degradation.
+
+Locking for reading is very fast, it uses RCU and it avoids any atomic
+instruction in the lock and unlock path. On the other hand, locking for
+writing is very expensive, it calls synchronize_rcu() that can take
+hundreds of milliseconds.
+
+The lock is declared with "struct percpu_rw_semaphore" type.
+The lock is initialized percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success and
+-ENOMEM on allocation failure.
+The lock must be freed with percpu_free_rwsem to avoid memory leak.
+
+The lock is locked for read with percpu_down_read, percpu_up_read and
+for write with percpu_down_write, percpu_up_write.
+
+The idea of using RCU for optimized rw-lock was introduced by
+Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>.
+The code was written by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/pi-futex.rst b/Documentation/locking/pi-futex.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c33ba2befbf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/pi-futex.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+======================
+Lightweight PI-futexes
+======================
+
+We are calling them lightweight for 3 reasons:
+
+ - in the user-space fastpath a PI-enabled futex involves no kernel work
+   (or any other PI complexity) at all. No registration, no extra kernel
+   calls - just pure fast atomic ops in userspace.
+
+ - even in the slowpath, the system call and scheduling pattern is very
+   similar to normal futexes.
+
+ - the in-kernel PI implementation is streamlined around the mutex
+   abstraction, with strict rules that keep the implementation
+   relatively simple: only a single owner may own a lock (i.e. no
+   read-write lock support), only the owner may unlock a lock, no
+   recursive locking, etc.
+
+Priority Inheritance - why?
+---------------------------
+
+The short reply: user-space PI helps achieving/improving determinism for
+user-space applications. In the best-case, it can help achieve
+determinism and well-bound latencies. Even in the worst-case, PI will
+improve the statistical distribution of locking related application
+delays.
+
+The longer reply
+----------------
+
+Firstly, sharing locks between multiple tasks is a common programming
+technique that often cannot be replaced with lockless algorithms. As we
+can see it in the kernel [which is a quite complex program in itself],
+lockless structures are rather the exception than the norm - the current
+ratio of lockless vs. locky code for shared data structures is somewhere
+between 1:10 and 1:100. Lockless is hard, and the complexity of lockless
+algorithms often endangers to ability to do robust reviews of said code.
+I.e. critical RT apps often choose lock structures to protect critical
+data structures, instead of lockless algorithms. Furthermore, there are
+cases (like shared hardware, or other resource limits) where lockless
+access is mathematically impossible.
+
+Media players (such as Jack) are an example of reasonable application
+design with multiple tasks (with multiple priority levels) sharing
+short-held locks: for example, a highprio audio playback thread is
+combined with medium-prio construct-audio-data threads and low-prio
+display-colory-stuff threads. Add video and decoding to the mix and
+we've got even more priority levels.
+
+So once we accept that synchronization objects (locks) are an
+unavoidable fact of life, and once we accept that multi-task userspace
+apps have a very fair expectation of being able to use locks, we've got
+to think about how to offer the option of a deterministic locking
+implementation to user-space.
+
+Most of the technical counter-arguments against doing priority
+inheritance only apply to kernel-space locks. But user-space locks are
+different, there we cannot disable interrupts or make the task
+non-preemptible in a critical section, so the 'use spinlocks' argument
+does not apply (user-space spinlocks have the same priority inversion
+problems as other user-space locking constructs). Fact is, pretty much
+the only technique that currently enables good determinism for userspace
+locks (such as futex-based pthread mutexes) is priority inheritance:
+
+Currently (without PI), if a high-prio and a low-prio task shares a lock
+[this is a quite common scenario for most non-trivial RT applications],
+even if all critical sections are coded carefully to be deterministic
+(i.e. all critical sections are short in duration and only execute a
+limited number of instructions), the kernel cannot guarantee any
+deterministic execution of the high-prio task: any medium-priority task
+could preempt the low-prio task while it holds the shared lock and
+executes the critical section, and could delay it indefinitely.
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+As mentioned before, the userspace fastpath of PI-enabled pthread
+mutexes involves no kernel work at all - they behave quite similarly to
+normal futex-based locks: a 0 value means unlocked, and a value==TID
+means locked. (This is the same method as used by list-based robust
+futexes.) Userspace uses atomic ops to lock/unlock these mutexes without
+entering the kernel.
+
+To handle the slowpath, we have added two new futex ops:
+
+  - FUTEX_LOCK_PI
+  - FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI
+
+If the lock-acquire fastpath fails, [i.e. an atomic transition from 0 to
+TID fails], then FUTEX_LOCK_PI is called. The kernel does all the
+remaining work: if there is no futex-queue attached to the futex address
+yet then the code looks up the task that owns the futex [it has put its
+own TID into the futex value], and attaches a 'PI state' structure to
+the futex-queue. The pi_state includes an rt-mutex, which is a PI-aware,
+kernel-based synchronization object. The 'other' task is made the owner
+of the rt-mutex, and the FUTEX_WAITERS bit is atomically set in the
+futex value. Then this task tries to lock the rt-mutex, on which it
+blocks. Once it returns, it has the mutex acquired, and it sets the
+futex value to its own TID and returns. Userspace has no other work to
+perform - it now owns the lock, and futex value contains
+FUTEX_WAITERS|TID.
+
+If the unlock side fastpath succeeds, [i.e. userspace manages to do a
+TID -> 0 atomic transition of the futex value], then no kernel work is
+triggered.
+
+If the unlock fastpath fails (because the FUTEX_WAITERS bit is set),
+then FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI is called, and the kernel unlocks the futex on the
+behalf of userspace - and it also unlocks the attached
+pi_state->rt_mutex and thus wakes up any potential waiters.
+
+Note that under this approach, contrary to previous PI-futex approaches,
+there is no prior 'registration' of a PI-futex. [which is not quite
+possible anyway, due to existing ABI properties of pthread mutexes.]
+
+Also, under this scheme, 'robustness' and 'PI' are two orthogonal
+properties of futexes, and all four combinations are possible: futex,
+robust-futex, PI-futex, robust+PI-futex.
+
+More details about priority inheritance can be found in
+Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.rst.
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/preempt-locking.rst b/Documentation/locking/preempt-locking.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dce336134e54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/locking/preempt-locking.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+===========================================================================
+Proper Locking Under a Preemptible Kernel: Keeping Kernel Code Preempt-Safe
+===========================================================================
+
+:Author: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
+
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+
+A preemptible kernel creates new locking issues.  The issues are the same as
+those under SMP: concurrency and reentrancy.  Thankfully, the Linux preemptible
+kernel model leverages existing SMP locking mechanisms.  Thus, the kernel
+requires explicit additional locking for very few additional situations.
+