linux-kernel - Re: complete_all and "forever" completions

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:46:47 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        computersforpeace@...il.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        der.herr@...r.at
Subject: Re: complete_all and "forever" completions

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:42:13PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Does something like so work?

try_wait_for_completion() would need a similar change.

> ---
>  kernel/sched/completion.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
> index 8d0f35debf35..5deab9c789df 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void complete_all(struct completion *x)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
> -	x->done += UINT_MAX/2;
> +	x->done = UINT_MAX/2;
>  	__wake_up_locked(&x->wait, TASK_NORMAL, 0);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
>  }
> @@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x,
>  		if (!x->done)
>  			return timeout;
>  	}
> -	x->done--;
> +
> +	if (x->done != UINT_MAX/2)
> +		x->done--;
> +
>  	return timeout ?: 1;
>  }
>