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Commit 0abf17bc authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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sched/swait: Switch to full exclusive mode



Linus noted that swait basically implements exclusive mode -- because
swake_up() only wakes a single waiter. And because of that it should
take care to properly deal with the interruptible case.

In short, the problem is that swake_up() can race with a signal. In
this this case it is possible the swake_up() 'wakes' the waiter that
is already on the way out because it just got a signal and the wakeup
gets lost.

The normal wait code is very careful and avoids this situation, make
sure we do too.

Copy the exact exclusive semantics from wait.

Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612083909.209762413@infradead.org
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