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Michel Lespinasse committed 023fe4f7120
rwsem: simplify rwsem_down_write_failed When waking writers, we never grant them the lock - instead, they have to acquire it themselves when they run, and remove themselves from the wait_list when they succeed. As a result, we can do a few simplifications in rwsem_down_write_failed(): - We don't need to check for !waiter.task since __rwsem_do_wake() doesn't remove writers from the wait_list - There is no point releaseing the wait_lock before entering the wait loop, as we will need to reacquire it immediately. We can change the loop so that the lock is always held at the start of each loop iteration. - We don't need to get a reference on the task structure, since the task is responsible for removing itself from the wait_list. There is no risk, like in the rwsem_down_read_failed() case, that a task would wake up and exit (thus destroying its task structure) while __rwsem_do_wake() is still running - wait_lock protects against that. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>