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| author | Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> | 2008-12-18 04:29:56 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-18 13:42:23 +0300 |
| commit | 73500ac545d24610eb2cf8579ffc88957e9c5847 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e36cc5585bd25a1d8cbe973d229250bee0cef32 /kernel/futex.c | |
| parent | 1acdac104668a0834cfa267de9946fac7764d486 (diff) | |
| download | linux-73500ac545d24610eb2cf8579ffc88957e9c5847.tar.xz | |
futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
Impact: simplify code
I've tripped over the naming of this field a couple times.
The futex_q uses a "waiters" list to represent a single blocked task and
then calles wake_up_all().
This can lead to confusion in trying to understand the intent of the code,
which is to have a single futex_q for every task waiting on a futex.
This patch corrects the problem, using a single pointer to the waiting
task, and an appropriate call to wake_up, rather than wake_up_all.
Compile and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 machine.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index ba0d3b83c091..99f8acce08bf 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ struct futex_pi_state { * A futex_q has a woken state, just like tasks have TASK_RUNNING. * It is considered woken when plist_node_empty(&q->list) || q->lock_ptr == 0. * The order of wakup is always to make the first condition true, then - * wake up q->waiters, then make the second condition true. + * wake up q->waiter, then make the second condition true. */ struct futex_q { struct plist_node list; - wait_queue_head_t waiters; + /* There can only be a single waiter */ + wait_queue_head_t waiter; /* Which hash list lock to use: */ spinlock_t *lock_ptr; @@ -573,7 +574,7 @@ static void wake_futex(struct futex_q *q) * The lock in wake_up_all() is a crucial memory barrier after the * plist_del() and also before assigning to q->lock_ptr. */ - wake_up_all(&q->waiters); + wake_up(&q->waiter); /* * The waiting task can free the futex_q as soon as this is written, * without taking any locks. This must come last. @@ -930,7 +931,7 @@ static inline struct futex_hash_bucket *queue_lock(struct futex_q *q) { struct futex_hash_bucket *hb; - init_waitqueue_head(&q->waiters); + init_waitqueue_head(&q->waiter); get_futex_key_refs(&q->key); hb = hash_futex(&q->key); @@ -1221,7 +1222,7 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, /* add_wait_queue is the barrier after __set_current_state. */ __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - add_wait_queue(&q.waiters, &wait); + add_wait_queue(&q.waiter, &wait); /* * !plist_node_empty() is safe here without any lock. * q.lock_ptr != 0 is not safe, because of ordering against wakeup. |