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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-20 12:06:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-06-20 12:19:14 +0200
commit2055da97389a605c8a00d163d40903afbe413921 (patch)
tree6aec7243076aab2d4d239f03e34598752ce1512a /fs/eventpoll.c
parent5822a454d6d22297c5fcd66264120587b2ec21cd (diff)
downloadlinux-2055da97389a605c8a00d163d40903afbe413921.tar.gz
sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming
So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether ->task_list was for a wait-queue head or a wait-queue entry.

Furthermore, there's a number of wait-queue users where the lists are
not for 'tasks' but other entities (poll tables, etc.), in which case
the 'task_list' name is actively confusing.

To clear this all up, name the wait-queue head and entry list structure
fields unambiguously:

	struct wait_queue_head::task_list	=> ::head
	struct wait_queue_entry::task_list	=> ::entry

For example, this code:

	rqw->wait.task_list.next != &wait->task_list

... is was pretty unclear (to me) what it's doing, while now it's written this way:

	rqw->wait.head.next != &wait->entry

... which makes it pretty clear that we are iterating a list until we see the head.

Other examples are:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->task_list, task_list) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.task_list, task_list) {

... where it's unclear (to me) what we are iterating, and during review it's
hard to tell whether it's trying to walk a wait-queue entry (which would be
a bug), while now it's written as:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->head, entry) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.head, entry) {

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/eventpoll.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/eventpoll.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 5ac1cba5ef72..b1c8e23ddf65 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_entry_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, v
 		 * can't use __remove_wait_queue(). whead->lock is held by
 		 * the caller.
 		 */
-		list_del_init(&wait->task_list);
+		list_del_init(&wait->entry);
 	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);