futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:20:10 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:59:14 +0000 (15:59 +0200)
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>
kernel/futex.c

index 0672ff8..d077201 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
        }