Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] wait.[ch]: Introduce the simple waitqueue (swait) implementation

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Oct 26 2015 - 08:28:41 EST


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 08:04:26PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:28:07AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * The thing about the wake_up_state() return value; I think we can ignore it.
> > + *
> > + * If for some reason it would return 0, that means the previously waiting
> > + * task is already running, so it will observe condition true (or has already).
> > + */
> > +void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> > +{
> > + struct swait_queue *curr;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(curr, &q->task_list, task_list) {
> > + wake_up_process(curr->task);
> > + list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> > + break;
>
> Just be curious, what's this break for? Or what's this loop(?) for?

Lazy way of writing: if (!empty) { curr = first-entry;
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