This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
single waitqueue and an atomic thread counter.
This gets us a little bit closer to eli
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:48:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
> single waitqueue
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:48:21 +0100
> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
> single waitqueue an
Hi Arnd,
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:50 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is one of only two files that initialize a semaphore to a negative
> value. We don't really need the two semaphores here at all, but can do
> the same thing in more conventional and more effient way, by using a
> single waitqueu
