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Michel Lespinasse committed 25c39325968
rwsem: do not block readers at head of queue if other readers are active This change fixes a race condition where a reader might determine it needs to block, but by the time it acquires the wait_lock the rwsem has active readers and no queued waiters. In this situation the reader can run in parallel with the existing active readers; it does not need to block until the active readers complete. Thanks to Peter Hurley for noticing this possible race. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.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>