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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait()

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> You missed the one in do_exit(), which I thought was the original one.

Indeed, it's raw_spin_unlock_wait() which my git grep pattern missed.

But it's not the original spin_unlock_wait(): the pi_lock and priority inheritance
is a newfangled invention that Linus (rightfully) resisted for years.

The original spin_unlock_wait() was for the global scheduler_lock, long gone.

Here's the full history of the original spin_unlock_wait() usecase in the
do_exit() path, for the historically interested:

[1997/04] v2.1.36:

the spin_unlock_wait() primitive gets introduced as part of release()

[1998/08] v2.1.114:

the release() usecase gets converted to an open coded spin_lock()+unlock()
poll loop over scheduler_lock

[1999/05] v2.3.11pre3:

open coded loop is changed over to poll p->has_cpu

[1999/07] v2.3.12pre6:

->has_cpu loop poll loop is converted to a spin_lock()+unlock()
poll loop over runqueue_lock

[2000/06] 2.4.0-test6pre4:

combined open coded p->has_cpu poll loop is added back, in addition to the
lock()+unlock() loop

[2000/11] 2.4.0-test12pre4:

lock+unlock loop is changed from scheduler_lock to task_lock

[2001/11] v2.4.14.9:

->has_cpu gets renamed to ->cpus_runnable

[2001/12] v2.5.1.10:

poll loop is factored out from exit()'s release() function
to the scheduler's new wait_task_inactive() function

...

[2017/07] v4.12:

wait_task_inactive() is still alive and kicking. Its poll loop has
increased in complexity, but it still does not use spin_unlock_wait()

So it was always a mess, and we relatively early flipped from the clever
spin_unlock_wait() implementation to an open coded lock+unlock poll loop.

TL;DR: The original do_exit() usecase is gone, it does not use spin_unlock_wait(),
since 1998.

Thanks,

Ingo

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