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wait: kill is_sync_wait()

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is_sync_wait() is used to distinguish between sync and async waits.
Basically sync waits are the ones initialized with init_waitqueue_entry()
and async ones with init_waitqueue_func_entry().  The sync/async
distinction is used only in prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]() and its only
function is to skip setting the current task state if the wait is async.
This has a few problems.

* No one uses it.  None of func_entry users use prepare_to_wait()
  functions, so the code path never gets executed.

* The distinction is bogus.  Maybe back when func_entry is used only
  by aio but it's now also used by epoll and in future possibly by 9p
  and poll/select.

* Taking @state as argument and ignoring it silenly depending on how
  @wait is initialized is just a bad error-prone API.

* It prevents func_entry waits from using wait->private for no good
  reason.

This patch kills is_sync_wait() and the associated code paths from
prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]().  As there was no user of these code paths,
this patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo 2008-10-15 22:01:38 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c80cfb0406
commit a25d644fc0
2 changed files with 2 additions and 21 deletions
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include/linux/wait.h
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@ -108,15 +108,6 @@ static inline int waitqueue_active(wait_queue_head_t *q)
return !list_empty(&q->task_list);
}
/*
* Used to distinguish between sync and async io wait context:
* sync i/o typically specifies a NULL wait queue entry or a wait
* queue entry bound to a task (current task) to wake up.
* aio specifies a wait queue entry with an async notification
* callback routine, not associated with any task.
*/
#define is_sync_wait(wait) (!(wait) || ((wait)->private))
extern void add_wait_queue(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait);
extern void add_wait_queue_exclusive(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait);
extern void remove_wait_queue(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait);

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kernel/wait.c
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@ -72,12 +72,7 @@ prepare_to_wait(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int state)
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
if (list_empty(&wait->task_list))
__add_wait_queue(q, wait);
/*
* don't alter the task state if this is just going to
* queue an async wait queue callback
*/
if (is_sync_wait(wait))
set_current_state(state);
set_current_state(state);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait);
@ -91,12 +86,7 @@ prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int state)
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
if (list_empty(&wait->task_list))
__add_wait_queue_tail(q, wait);
/*
* don't alter the task state if this is just going to
* queue an async wait queue callback
*/
if (is_sync_wait(wait))
set_current_state(state);
set_current_state(state);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait_exclusive);