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Commit abc610e0 authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/epoll: avoid barrier after an epoll_wait(2) timeout



Upon timeout, we can just exit out of the loop, without the cost of the
changing the task's state with an smp_store_mb call.  Just exit out of
the loop and be done - setting the task state afterwards will be, of
course, redundant.

[dave@stgolabs.net: forgotten fixlets]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109155258.jxcr4t2pnz6zqct3@linux-r8p5
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108051006.18751-7-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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