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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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Linus 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
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.