Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | [PATCH v2] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:16:19 -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 BZ 206115 which contains a copy of the paper from
https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 2473f10c6956..ce75b2270b58 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -31,10 +31,9 @@ /* * The basic principle of a queue-based spinlock can best be understood * by studying a classic queue-based spinlock implementation called the - * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind - * of lock. + * MCS lock. A copy of the original MCS lock papaer is available at * - * http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf + * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206115 * * 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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