[tip:sched/core] sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long

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Commit-ID:  6bf4123760a5aece6e4829ce90b70b6ffd751d65
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6bf4123760a5aece6e4829ce90b70b6ffd751d65
Author:     NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:50:16 +1100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:15:50 +0100

sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long

wait_for_completion_*_timeout() can return:

   0: if the wait timed out
 -ve: if the wait was interrupted
 +ve: if the completion was completed.

As they currently return an 'unsigned long', the last two cases
are not easily distinguished which can easily result in buggy
code, as is the case for the recently added
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() call in
net/sunrpc/cache.c

So change them both to return 'long'.  As MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT
is LONG_MAX, a large +ve return value should never overflow.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: J.  Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20110105125016.64ccab0e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/completion.h |    8 ++++----
 kernel/sched.c             |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/completion.h b/include/linux/completion.h
index 36d57f7..51494e6 100644
--- a/include/linux/completion.h
+++ b/include/linux/completion.h
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@ extern int wait_for_completion_interruptible(struct completion *x);
 extern int wait_for_completion_killable(struct completion *x);
 extern unsigned long wait_for_completion_timeout(struct completion *x,
 						   unsigned long timeout);
-extern unsigned long wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
-			struct completion *x, unsigned long timeout);
-extern unsigned long wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(
-			struct completion *x, unsigned long timeout);
+extern long wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
+	struct completion *x, unsigned long timeout);
+extern long wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(
+	struct completion *x, unsigned long timeout);
 extern bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x);
 extern bool completion_done(struct completion *x);
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index f2f914e..114a0de 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4395,7 +4395,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_interruptible);
  * This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be signaled or for a
  * specified timeout to expire. It is interruptible. The timeout is in jiffies.
  */
-unsigned long __sched
+long __sched
 wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(struct completion *x,
 					  unsigned long timeout)
 {
@@ -4428,7 +4428,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_killable);
  * signaled or for a specified timeout to expire. It can be
  * interrupted by a kill signal. The timeout is in jiffies.
  */
-unsigned long __sched
+long __sched
 wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(struct completion *x,
 				     unsigned long timeout)
 {
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