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author | Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> | 2013-05-24 15:55:09 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-05-24 16:22:50 -0700 |
commit | 4c663cfc523a88d97a8309b04a089c27dc57fd7e (patch) | |
tree | d3b9de53922dbc326017075bd5e1558b5f8c741d /mm | |
parent | 7b92d03c3239f43e5b86c9cc9630f026d36ee995 (diff) | |
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wait: fix false timeouts when using wait_event_timeout()
Many callers of the wait_event_timeout() and
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() expect that the return value will be
positive if the specified condition becomes true before the timeout
elapses. However, at the moment this isn't guaranteed. If the wake-up
handler is delayed enough, the time remaining until timeout will be
calculated as 0 - and passed back as a return value - even if the
condition became true before the timeout has passed.
Fix this by returning at least 1 if the condition becomes true. This
semantic is in line with what wait_for_condition_timeout() does; see
commit bb10ed09 ("sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious
failure under heavy load").
Daniel said "We have 3 instances of this bug in drm/i915. One case even
where we switch between the interruptible and not interruptible
wait_event_timeout variants, foolishly presuming they have the same
semantics. I very much like this."
One such bug is reported at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64133
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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