sched/wake_q: Document wake_q_add()
The only guarantee provided by wake_q_add() is that a wakeup will happen after it, it does _NOT_ guarantee the wakeup will be delayed until the matching wake_up_q(). If wake_q_add() fails the cmpxchg() a concurrent wakeup is pending and that can happen at any time after the cmpxchg(). This means we should not rely on the wakeup happening at wake_q_up(), but should be ready for wake_q_add() to issue the wakeup. The delay; if provided (most likely); should only result in more efficient behaviour. Reported-by: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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* called near the end of a function. Otherwise, the list can be
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* re-initialized for later re-use by wake_q_init().
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*
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* Note that this can cause spurious wakeups. schedule() callers
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* NOTE that this can cause spurious wakeups. schedule() callers
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* must ensure the call is done inside a loop, confirming that the
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* wakeup condition has in fact occurred.
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*
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* NOTE that there is no guarantee the wakeup will happen any later than the
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* wake_q_add() location. Therefore task must be ready to be woken at the
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* location of the wake_q_add().
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*/
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#include <linux/sched.h>
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