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alloc_dev_data() adds new items to dev_data_list and search_dev_data() is searching for items in this list. Both protect the access to the list with a spinlock. There is no need to navigate forth and back within the list and there is also no deleting of a specific item. This qualifies the list to become a lock less list and as part of this, the spinlock can be removed. With this change the ordering of those items within the list is changed: before the change new items were added to the end of the list, now they are added to the front. I don't think it matters but wanted to mention it. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.