Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper | Date | Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:25:32 -0500 |
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It turns out that the URL of the MCS lock paper listed in the source code is no longer accessible. I did got question about where the paper was. This patch updates the URL to one that is still accessible.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 2473f10c6956..1d008d2333c0 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind * of lock. * - * http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf + * https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf * * This queued spinlock implementation is based on the MCS lock, however to make * it fit the 4 bytes we assume spinlock_t to be, and preserve its existing -- 2.18.1
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