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futex: comment requeue key reference semantics

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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>
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Darren Hart 2009-04-02 14:19:38 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 833bb3046b
commit cd84a42f31
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@ -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);