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sched/wait: Fix add_wait_queue() behavioral change
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The following cleanup commit:

  50816c4 ("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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a16c8ccffd39bd08fdaa45a5192294c784b803a7.1512544324.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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osandov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Dec 6, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void add_wait_queue(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq

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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