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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/wait.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c index b4b52361dab7..ba059fbfc53a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c @@ -191,6 +191,29 @@ void __wake_up_sync_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, unsigned int mode, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync_key); +/** + * __wake_up_locked_sync_key - wake up a thread blocked on a locked waitqueue. + * @wq_head: the waitqueue + * @mode: which threads + * @key: opaque value to be passed to wakeup targets + * + * The sync wakeup differs in that the waker knows that it will schedule + * away soon, so while the target thread will be woken up, it will not + * be migrated to another CPU - ie. the two threads are 'synchronized' + * with each other. This can prevent needless bouncing between CPUs. + * + * On UP it can prevent extra preemption. + * + * If this function wakes up a task, it executes a full memory barrier before + * accessing the task state. + */ +void __wake_up_locked_sync_key(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, + unsigned int mode, void *key) +{ + __wake_up_common(wq_head, mode, 1, WF_SYNC, key, NULL); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_locked_sync_key); + /* * __wake_up_sync - see __wake_up_sync_key() */ |