Re: [PATCH] sched: Wake up all non-exclusive waiters in __wake_up_common()

[Byungchul Park]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:41:47AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 09:21:52AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > __wake_up_common() should wake up all non-exclusive waiters and
> > exclusive waiters as many as nr_exclusive, but currently it does not.
> > 
> > Consider a wait queue like the following for example:
> > 
> >    A(exclusive) -> B(non-exclusive) -> C(non-exclusive)
> > 
> > Current code will wake up only A when nr_exclusive = 1, but has to wake
> > up A, B and C. Make it do as we expect.
> 
> You have the list oredered the wrong way around. We add exclusive
> waiters to the tail, therefore we'll have woken up all the !exclusive
> waiters before we start decrementing nr_exclusive.

You're right. I proposed the patch because of __add_wait_queue_exclusive(),
which queues an item at the head. But it was my mistake. Sorry.