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The demote_ok glock operation is only still used to prevent the inode glocks of the "jindex" and "rindex" directories from getting recycled while they are still referenced by sdp->sd_jindex and sdp->sd_rindex. However, the LRU walking code will no longer recycle glocks which are referenced, so the demote_ok glock operation is obsolete and can be removed. Each of a glock's holders in the gl_holders list is holding a reference on the glock, so when the list of holders isn't empty in demote_ok(), the existing reference count check will already prevent the glock from getting released. This means that demote_ok() is obsolete as well. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.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 reStructuredText 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.