Changeset 623 for trunk/kernel/libk/busylock.h

Timestamp:

Mar 6, 2019, 4:37:15 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

alain

Message:

Introduce three new types of vsegs (KCODE,KDATA,KDEV)
to map the kernel vsegs in the process VSL and GPT.
This now used by both the TSAR and the I86 architectures.

File:

• trunk/kernel/libk/busylock.h (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/kernel/libk/busylock.h

@@ -34 +34 @@
  * a shared object located in a given cluster, made by thread(s) running in same cluster.
  * It uses a busy waiting policy when the lock is taken by another thread, and should
- * be used to execute very short actions, such as basic allocators, or to protect 
- * higher level synchronisation objects, such as queuelock or rwlock.
- * WARNING: a thread cannot yield when it is owning a busylock (local or remote).
+ * be used to execute very short actions, such as accessing basic allocators, or higher 
+ * level synchronisation objects (barriers, queuelocks, or rwlocks).
+ * WARNING: a thread cannot yield when it is owning a busylock.
  * 
  * - To acquire the lock, we use a ticket policy to avoid starvation: the calling thread