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Message-Id: <1615879880-16832-1-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:31:20 +0800
From:   Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: completion: Reinterpret the meaning of completion_done()

The most intuitive meaning of completion_done() is to see if a completion has 
been done, done=0 can only indicate that someone may be waiting.

Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
---
 kernel/sched/completion.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
index a778554f9dad..c8ea7575cc41
--- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
@@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_wait_for_completion);
 
 /**
- *	completion_done - Test to see if a completion has any waiters
+ *	completion_done - Test to see if a completion has been done
  *	@x:	completion structure
  *
- *	Return: 0 if there are waiters (wait_for_completion() in progress)
+ *	Return: 0 if there may be waiters (wait_for_completion() in progress)
  *		 1 if there are no waiters.
  *
  *	Note, this will always return true if complete_all() was called on @X.
-- 
2.27.0

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