Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned

[Stefan Richter]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:03 -0500
> Stephen Clark <sclark46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> How up to date is this doc?
>> 
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/index.html
>> 
> 
> Out of date.
> 1. Missing mutex's which have largely replaced semaphores.
> 
> 2. Missing change to lock initialization in later kernels.
> 
> 3. Missing description of lock dependency checker which should be in same guide.

4. The section on atomic reference counting should refer to <linux/kref.h>.
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