17 Apr, 2008
5 commits
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Move documentation from semaphore.h to semaphore.c as requested by
Andrew Morton. Also reformat to kernel-doc style and add some more
notes about the implementation.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
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By removing the negative values of 'count' and relying on the wait_list to
indicate whether we have any waiters, we can simplify the implementation
by removing the protection against an unlikely race condition. Thanks to
David Howells for his suggestions.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
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ACPI currently emulates a timeout for semaphores with calls to
down_trylock and sleep. This produces horrible behaviour in terms of
fairness and excessive wakeups. Now that we have a unified semaphore
implementation, adding a real down_trylock is almost trivial.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
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down_killable() is the functional counterpart of mutex_lock_killable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
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Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning. Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
