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2017-02-01sched/wait, rcuwait: Fix typo in commentDavidlohr Bueso
Forgot to update the comment after renaming the call. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485704532-9290-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machineryDavidlohr Bueso
rcuwait provides support for (single) RCU-safe task wait/wake functionality, with the caveat that it must not be called after exit_notify(), such that we avoid racing with rcu delayed_put_task_struct callbacks, task_struct being rcu unaware in this context -- for which we similarly have task_rcu_dereference() magic, but with different return semantics, which can conflict with the wakeup side. The interfaces are quite straightforward: rcuwait_wait_event() rcuwait_wake_up() More details are in the comments, but it's perhaps worth mentioning at least, that users must provide proper serialization when waiting on a condition, and avoid corrupting a concurrent waiter. Also care must be taken between the task and the condition for when calling the wakeup -- we cannot miss wakeups. When porting users, this is for example, a given when using waitqueues in that everything is done under the q->lock. As such, it can remove sources of non preemptable unbounded work for realtime. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484148146-14210-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>