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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 2e9d6b41f03..435413ca40d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
</para>
<para>
The third type is a semaphore
- (<filename class="headerfile">include/asm/semaphore.h</filename>): it
+ (<filename class="headerfile">include/linux/semaphore.h</filename>): it
can have more than one holder at any time (the number decided at
initialization time), although it is most commonly used as a
single-holder lock (a mutex). If you can't get a semaphore, your
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
<para>
If you have a data structure which is only ever accessed from
user context, then you can use a simple semaphore
- (<filename>linux/asm/semaphore.h</filename>) to protect it. This
+ (<filename>linux/linux/semaphore.h</filename>) to protect it. This
is the most trivial case: you initialize the semaphore to the number
of resources available (usually 1), and call
<function>down_interruptible()</function> to grab the semaphore, and
@@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
#include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;linux/rcupdate.h&gt;
- #include &lt;asm/semaphore.h&gt;
+ #include &lt;linux/semaphore.h&gt;
#include &lt;asm/errno.h&gt;
struct object
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 309c47b9159..b45ea28abc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -298,3 +298,11 @@ Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: asm/semaphore.h
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
+ linux/semaphore.h instead.
+Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>