4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com>

commit c6b9d9a33029014446bd9ed84c1688f6d3d4eab9 upstream.

The following cleanup commit:

  50816c48997a ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")

... unintentionally changed the behavior of add_wait_queue() from
inserting the wait entry at the head of the wait queue to the tail
of the wait queue.

Beyond a negative performance impact this change in behavior
theoretically also breaks wait queues which mix exclusive and
non-exclusive waiters, as non-exclusive waiters will not be
woken up if they are queued behind enough exclusive waiters.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-t...@fb.com
Fixes: ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a16c8ccffd39bd08fdaa45a5192294c784b803a7.1512544324.git.osan...@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/wait.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void add_wait_queue(struct wait_queue_he
 
        wq_entry->flags &= ~WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
        spin_lock_irqsave(&wq_head->lock, flags);
-       __add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wq_head, wq_entry);
+       __add_wait_queue(wq_head, wq_entry);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq_head->lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_wait_queue);


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