From: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:54:23 +0800
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:48:29PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: >> >> BTW, the networking folks found this years ago and even added >> helpers to deal with this. See for example wq_has_sleeper in >> include/net/sock.h. It would be good if we can move some of >> those helpers into wait.h instead. > > Here is a patch against net-next which makes the wq_has_sleeper > helper available to non-next users: > > ---8<--- > The memory barrier in the helper wq_has_sleeper is needed by just > about every user of waitqueue_active. This patch generalises it > by making it take a wait_queue_head_t directly. The existing > helper is renamed to skwq_has_sleeper. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> I'm fine with wherever this patch goes. Herbert is there any particular tree where it'll facilitate another user quickest? Or should I just toss it into net-next? Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
