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author | Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> | 2009-04-02 23:19:38 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-02 23:39:53 +0200 |
commit | cd84a42f315e50edd454c27a3da3951ccd3d735a (patch) | |
tree | fa13b2faa6c2f73255f52a65cd4f572d9bd95e1a /kernel | |
parent | serial: fixup /proc/tty/driver/serial after proc_fops conversion (diff) | |
download | linux-cd84a42f315e50edd454c27a3da3951ccd3d735a.tar.xz linux-cd84a42f315e50edd454c27a3da3951ccd3d735a.zip |
futex: comment requeue key reference semantics
We've tripped over the futex_requeue drop_count refering to key2
instead of key1. The code is actually correct, but is non-intuitive.
This patch adds an explicit comment explaining the requeue.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 6b50a024bca2..eef8cd26b5e5 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -883,7 +883,12 @@ retry_private: out_unlock: double_unlock_hb(hb1, hb2); - /* drop_futex_key_refs() must be called outside the spinlocks. */ + /* + * drop_futex_key_refs() must be called outside the spinlocks. During + * the requeue we moved futex_q's from the hash bucket at key1 to the + * one at key2 and updated their key pointer. We no longer need to + * hold the references to key1. + */ while (--drop_count >= 0) drop_futex_key_refs(&key1); |