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authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>2009-07-31 16:20:10 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-04 15:59:14 +0200
commitcc6db4e60116c1f76577b6850a35ae7de69a95b6 (patch)
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parenta33a052f19a21d727847391c8c1aff3fb221c472 (diff)
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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@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <4A737C2A.9090001@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c23
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 0672ff88f159..d077201b393d 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;
}