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sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees

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Both the implementation and the users' expectation [1] for the various
wakeup primitives have evolved over time, but the documentation has not
kept up with these changes: brings it into 2018.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180424091510.GB4064@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Also applied feedback from Alan Stern.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-12-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andrea Parri
2018-07-16 11:06:03 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 3d85b27037
commit 7696f9910a
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@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ static void __wake_up_common_lock(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int
* @nr_exclusive: how many wake-one or wake-many threads to wake up
* @key: is directly passed to the wakeup function
*
* It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
* changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
* If this function wakes up a task, it executes a full memory barrier before
* accessing the task state.
*/
void __wake_up(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode,
int nr_exclusive, void *key)
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_locked_key_bookmark);
*
* On UP it can prevent extra preemption.
*
* It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
* changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
* If this function wakes up a task, it executes a full memory barrier before
* accessing the task state.
*/
void __wake_up_sync_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode,
int nr_exclusive, void *key)