From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: Regression with wait_event_timeout in next-20140226
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:16:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140409111638.GS11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140226142534.3b8c6eb1652d000206948ae0@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:25:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is there anything we can do to make all this clearer? Simply using a
> distinctive variable name ("__wait_var__"?) in place of __ret (and
> documenting it) would help a lot.
>
> Some __ret's are long and some are int. Maybe that's a glitch, maybe
> it's because some __ret's are used for inter-macro communications and
> some are not, which just makes things worse.
>
> I started to do a patch, got all confused and gave up. We've made
> quite a tangly mess in there, alas.
Something like so?
---
Subject: wait: Explain the shadowing and type inconsistencies
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Apr 9 12:50:34 CEST 2014
Stick in a comment before someone else tries to fix the sparse warning
this generates.
Requested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o2ro6f3vkxklni0bc8f7m68s@git.kernel.org
---
include/linux/wait.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -191,11 +191,23 @@ wait_queue_head_t *bit_waitqueue(void *,
(!__builtin_constant_p(state) || \
state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE || state == TASK_KILLABLE) \
+/*
+ * The below macro ___wait_event() has an explicit shadow of the __ret
+ * variable when used from the wait_event_*() macros.
+ *
+ * This is so that both can use the ___wait_cond_timeout() construct
+ * to wrap the condition.
+ *
+ * The type inconsistency of the wait_event_*() __ret variable is also
+ * on purpose; we use long where we can return timeout values and int
+ * otherwise.
+ */
+
#define ___wait_event(wq, condition, state, exclusive, ret, cmd) \
({ \
__label__ __out; \
wait_queue_t __wait; \
- long __ret = ret; \
+ long __ret = ret; /* explicit shadow */ \
\
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&__wait.task_list); \
if (exclusive) \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-09 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 16:35 Regression with wait_event_timeout in next-20140226 Gregory CLEMENT
2014-02-26 16:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-26 22:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-09 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-04-09 19:05 ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-27 3:12 ` Stephen Rothwell
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