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Linus Torvalds 995933305e Merge branch 'pipe-exclusive-wakeup'
Merge thundering herd avoidance on pipe IO.

This would have been applied for 5.5 already, but got delayed because of
a user-space race condition in the GNU make jobserver code.  Now that
there's a new GNU make 4.3 release, and most distributions seem to have
at least applied the (almost three year old) fix for the problem, let's
see if people notice.

And it might have been just bad random timing luck on my machine.

If you do hit the race condition, things will still work, but the
symptom is that you don't get nearly the expected parallelism when using
"make -j<N>".

The jobserver bug can definitely happen without this patch too, but
seems to be easier to trigger when we no longer wake up pipe waiters
unnecessarily.

* pipe-exclusive-wakeup:
  pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing
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Linux kernel
============

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 Restructured Text 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.