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Signed-off-by: Benny Zlotnik <uber442@gmail.com>
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@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ As for other synchronization primitives which we saw in this chapter, usually `l
#define RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS 0x00000001L #define RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS 0x00000001L
``` ```
or `0xffffffff00000001` to the `count` of the given `reader/writer semaphore` and returns previous value of it. After this we check the active mask in the `rw_semaphore->count`. If it was zero before, this means that there were no-one writer before, so we acquired a lock. In other way we call the `call_rwsem_down_write_failed` function from the [arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/16f73eb02d7e1765ccab3d2018e0bd98eb93d973/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S) assembly file. The the `call_rwsem_down_write_failed` function just calls the `rwsem_down_write_failed` function from the [kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/16f73eb02d7e1765ccab3d2018e0bd98eb93d973/locking/rwsem-xadd.c) source code file anticipatorily save general purpose registers: or `0xffffffff00000001` to the `count` of the given `reader/writer semaphore` and returns previous value of it. After this we check the active mask in the `rw_semaphore->count`. If it was zero before, this means that there were no-one writer before, so we acquired a lock. In other way we call the `call_rwsem_down_write_failed` function from the [arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/16f73eb02d7e1765ccab3d2018e0bd98eb93d973/arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S) assembly file. The `call_rwsem_down_write_failed` function just calls the `rwsem_down_write_failed` function from the [kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/16f73eb02d7e1765ccab3d2018e0bd98eb93d973/locking/rwsem-xadd.c) source code file anticipatorily save general purpose registers:
```assembly ```assembly
ENTRY(call_rwsem_down_write_failed) ENTRY(call_rwsem_down_write_failed)