On 06/29, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>
> prepare_to_wait_event() has a pretty good pattern (and comment), I would
> favour using that (test the signal when inserting on the waitqueue).
>
> @@ -1133,6 +1133,15 @@ static inline int
> wait_on_page_bit_common(wait_queue_head_t *q,
> for (;;) {
> spin_lock_irq(&q->lock);
>
> + if (signal_pending_state(state, current)) {
> + /* Must not lose an exclusive wake up, see
> + * prepare_to_wait_event comment */
> + list_del_init(&wait->entry);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&q->lock);
> + ret = -EINTR;
Basically this is what my patch in the 1st email does. But note that we can't
just set "ret = -EINTR" here, we will need to clear "ret" if test_and_set_bit()
below succeeds. That is why I used another "int intr" variable.
Oleg.
