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Tejun Heo a25d644fc0 wait: kill is_sync_wait()
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
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acpi include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
asm-arm
asm-cris Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support. 2008-09-06 19:30:24 +01:00
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asm-generic include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
asm-h8300 h8300: update timer handler - new files 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
asm-m32r Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support. 2008-09-06 19:30:24 +01:00
asm-m68k m68k: remove the dead PCI code 2008-10-14 10:23:27 -07:00
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asm-parisc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-10-13 17:13:56 +01:00
asm-um net: Fix build with ARCH=um 2008-09-19 12:44:54 -07:00
asm-x86 include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
asm-xtensa Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support. 2008-09-06 19:30:24 +01:00
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math-emu math-emu: Add support for reporting exact invalid exception 2008-09-16 10:01:37 -05:00
media include: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__ 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
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