From 0754445d71c37a7afd4f0790a9be4cf53c1b8cc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:15:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched/wake_q: Clarify queue reinit comment As of: bcc9a76d5ac ("locking/rwsem: Reinit wake_q after use") the comment regarding the list reinitialization no longer applies, update it with the new wake_q_init() helper. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Waiman Long Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: longman@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129151531.GA2444@linux-80c1.suse Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4e62b378bd65..1cc0dede2122 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1000,8 +1000,8 @@ enum cpu_idle_type { * * The DEFINE_WAKE_Q macro declares and initializes the list head. * wake_up_q() does NOT reinitialize the list; it's expected to be - * called near the end of a function, where the fact that the queue is - * not used again will be easy to see by inspection. + * called near the end of a function. Otherwise, the list can be + * re-initialized for later re-use by wake_q_init(). * * Note that this can cause spurious wakeups. schedule() callers * must ensure the call is done inside a loop, confirming that the -- 2.20.1