linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] locking/rwsem: Remove a few useless comments

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Message-Id: <1470384285-32163-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net>
Date:	Fri,  5 Aug 2016 01:04:44 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org
Cc:	Waiman.Long@...com, jason.low2@....com, wanpeng.li@...mail.com,
	dave@...olabs.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] locking/rwsem: Remove a few useless comments

Our rwsem code (xadd, at least) is rather well documented, but
there are a few really annoying comments in there that serve
no purpose and we shouldn't bother with them.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
index b03623172277..e02fe3289b5a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
@@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ struct rw_semaphore __sched *rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	WAKE_Q(wake_q);
 
-	/* set up my own style of waitqueue */
 	waiter.task = tsk;
 	waiter.type = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ;
 
@@ -613,7 +612,6 @@ struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 locked:
 
-	/* do nothing if list empty */
 	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
 		__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, &wake_q);
 
@@ -637,7 +635,6 @@ struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_downgrade_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
-	/* do nothing if list empty */
 	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
 		__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED, &wake_q);
 
-- 
2.6.6