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Message-ID: <tip-cc6db4e60116c1f76577b6850a35ae7de69a95b6@git.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:15:51 GMT
From: tip-bot for Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, hpa@...or.com,
mingo@...hat.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:core/futexes] futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
Commit-ID: cc6db4e60116c1f76577b6850a35ae7de69a95b6
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cc6db4e60116c1f76577b6850a35ae7de69a95b6
Author: Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:10 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:59:14 +0200
futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
The state machine described in the comments wasn't updated with
a follow-on fix. Address that and cleanup the corresponding
commentary in the function.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <4A737C2A.9090001@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
kernel/futex.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 0672ff8..d077201 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2102,11 +2102,11 @@ int handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
* We call schedule in futex_wait_queue_me() when we enqueue and return there
* via the following:
* 1) wakeup on uaddr2 after an atomic lock acquisition by futex_requeue()
- * 2) wakeup on uaddr2 after a requeue and subsequent unlock
- * 3) signal (before or after requeue)
- * 4) timeout (before or after requeue)
+ * 2) wakeup on uaddr2 after a requeue
+ * 3) signal
+ * 4) timeout
*
- * If 3, we setup a restart_block with futex_wait_requeue_pi() as the function.
+ * If 3, cleanup and return -ERESTARTNOINTR.
*
* If 2, we may then block on trying to take the rt_mutex and return via:
* 5) successful lock
@@ -2114,7 +2114,7 @@ int handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
* 7) timeout
* 8) other lock acquisition failure
*
- * If 6, we setup a restart_block with futex_lock_pi() as the function.
+ * If 6, return -EWOULDBLOCK (restarting the syscall would do the same).
*
* If 4 or 7, we cleanup and return with -ETIMEDOUT.
*
@@ -2232,14 +2232,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex);
} else if (ret == -EINTR) {
/*
- * We've already been requeued, but we have no way to
- * restart by calling futex_lock_pi() directly. We
- * could restart the syscall, but that will look at
- * the user space value and return right away. So we
- * drop back with EWOULDBLOCK to tell user space that
- * "val" has been changed. That's the same what the
- * restart of the syscall would do in
- * futex_wait_setup().
+ * We've already been requeued, but cannot restart by calling
+ * futex_lock_pi() directly. We could restart this syscall, but
+ * it would detect that the user space "val" changed and return
+ * -EWOULDBLOCK. Save the overhead of the restart and return
+ * -EWOULDBLOCK directly.
*/
ret = -EWOULDBLOCK;
}
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