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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index c4a182f5357e..153eb22b0fc0 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -2268,8 +2268,11 @@ static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart) /* * Userspace tried a 0 -> TID atomic transition of the futex value * and failed. The kernel side here does the whole locking operation: - * if there are waiters then it will block, it does PI, etc. (Due to - * races the kernel might see a 0 value of the futex too.) + * if there are waiters then it will block as a consequence of relying + * on rt-mutexes, it does PI, etc. (Due to races the kernel might see + * a 0 value of the futex too.). + * + * Also serves as futex trylock_pi()'ing, and due semantics. */ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, ktime_t *time, int trylock) @@ -2300,6 +2303,10 @@ retry_private: ret = futex_lock_pi_atomic(uaddr, hb, &q.key, &q.pi_state, current, 0); if (unlikely(ret)) { + /* + * Atomic work succeeded and we got the lock, + * or failed. Either way, we do _not_ block. + */ switch (ret) { case 1: /* We got the lock. */ |