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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-01-16 20:27:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-01-19 12:05:32 +0100 |
| commit | 40a35503401a5a5ffd8bb03b120724e213160584 (patch) | |
| tree | a5cfbeff14685234b8ef50a2c948b34f5f4d9979 /Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt | |
| parent | a97af339c80675402d23923f9514491e0a6b5477 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-40a35503401a5a5ffd8bb03b120724e213160584.tar.gz lwn-40a35503401a5a5ffd8bb03b120724e213160584.zip | |
doc: Fix misnamed FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI op constants
FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI was misnamed in two different ways:
FUTEX_REQUEUE_CMP_PI and FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI. The existence of two
different misnamings leaves the reader wondering if we are talking
about two different operations. Furthermore, the misnamings mean
that grepping the source for the correct name (which doesn't
appear at all) won't find this documentation file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54B9663D.9070000@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt b/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt index 31b16610c416..77b36f59d16b 100644 --- a/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt +++ b/Documentation/futex-requeue-pi.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() and rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock(), which allow the requeue code to acquire an uncontended rt_mutex on behalf of the waiter and to enqueue the waiter on a contended rt_mutex. Two new system calls provide the kernel<->user interface to -requeue_pi: FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI and FUTEX_REQUEUE_CMP_PI. +requeue_pi: FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI. FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI is called by the waiter (pthread_cond_wait() and pthread_cond_timedwait()) to block on the initial futex and wait @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ result of a high-speed collision between futex_wait() and futex_lock_pi(), with some extra logic to check for the additional wake-up scenarios. -FUTEX_REQUEUE_CMP_PI is called by the waker +FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI is called by the waker (pthread_cond_broadcast() and pthread_cond_signal()) to requeue and possibly wake the waiting tasks. Internally, this system call is still handled by futex_requeue (by passing requeue_pi=1). Before @@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ task as a waiter on the underlying rt_mutex. It is possible that the lock can be acquired at this stage as well, if so, the next waiter is woken to finish the acquisition of the lock. -FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI accepts nr_wake and nr_requeue as arguments, but +FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI accepts nr_wake and nr_requeue as arguments, but their sum is all that really matters. futex_requeue() will wake or requeue up to nr_wake + nr_requeue tasks. It will wake only as many tasks as it can acquire the lock for, which in the majority of cases should be 0 as good programming practice dictates that the caller of either pthread_cond_broadcast() or pthread_cond_signal() acquire the -mutex prior to making the call. FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI requires that +mutex prior to making the call. FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI requires that nr_wake=1. nr_requeue should be INT_MAX for broadcast and 0 for signal. |