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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] sched/wait: Make interruptible exclusive waitqueue wakeups reliable

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/09, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Any consumed exclusive event is handled in finish_wait_exclusive() now:
> >
> > + } else {
> > + /* We got removed from the waitqueue already, wake up the next exclusive waiter (if any): */
> > + if (interrupted && waitqueue_active(wq_head))
> > + __wake_up_locked_key(wq_head, TASK_NORMAL, NULL);
>
> See my previous email, I don't think we need this...
>
> But if we do this, then __wake_up_locked_key(key => NULL) doesn't look right.
> It should use the same "key" which was passed to __wake_up(key) which removed
> us from list.
>
> Currently this doesn't really matter, the only user of prepare_to_wait_event()
> which relies on the "keyed" wakeup is ___wait_var_event() and it doesn't have
> "exclusive" waiters, but still.
>
> Hmm. and it seems that init_wait_var_entry() is buggy? Again, currently this
> doesn't matter, but don't we need the trivial fix below?
>
> Oleg.
>
> --- x/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c
> +++ x/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ void init_wait_var_entry(struct wait_bit
> .bit_nr = -1,
> },
> .wq_entry = {
> + .flags = flags,
> .private = current,
> .func = var_wake_function,
> .entry = LIST_HEAD_INIT(wbq_entry->wq_entry.entry),

Yeah, agreed.

Thanks,

Ingo

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