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This patch add the documentation piece for the reasoning of deadlock detection related to recursive read lock. The following sections are added: * Explain what is a recursive read lock, and what deadlock cases they could introduce. * Introduce the notations for different types of dependencies, and the definition of strong paths. * Proof for a closed strong path is both sufficient and necessary for deadlock detections with recursive read locks involved. The proof could also explain why we call the path "strong" Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200807074238.1632519-3-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.