Re: [PATCH -v4 03/10] futex: Cleanup variable names for futex_top_waiter()

[Darren Hart]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:36:41AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> futex_top_waiter() returns the top-waiter on the pi_mutex. Assinging
> this to a variable 'match' totally obscures the code.
> 

Yes please.

One wording nit...

> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/futex.c |   30 +++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/kernel/futex.c
> +++ b/kernel/futex.c

> @@ -1317,11 +1317,11 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uad
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * It is possible that the next waiter (the one that brought
> -	 * this owner to the kernel) timed out and is no longer
> +	 * top_waiter owner to the kernel) timed out and is no longer
>  	 * waiting on the lock.
>  	 */

This breaks my parser (and did before too).

Consider:

/*
 * It is possible that the next waiter (that caused top_waiter to call
 * into the kernel) has since timed out and is no longer waiting on the
 * lock.
 */

Is that clearer?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center