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Matthew Wilcox 714493cd54 Improve semaphore documentation
Move documentation from semaphore.h to semaphore.c as requested by
Andrew Morton.  Also reformat to kernel-doc style and add some more
notes about the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-17 10:43:01 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox b17170b2fa Simplify semaphore implementation
By removing the negative values of 'count' and relying on the wait_list to
indicate whether we have any waiters, we can simplify the implementation
by removing the protection against an unlikely race condition.  Thanks to
David Howells for his suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-17 10:42:54 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox f1241c87a1 Add down_timeout and change ACPI to use it
ACPI currently emulates a timeout for semaphores with calls to
down_trylock and sleep.  This produces horrible behaviour in terms of
fairness and excessive wakeups.  Now that we have a unified semaphore
implementation, adding a real down_trylock is almost trivial.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-17 10:42:46 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox f06d968658 Introduce down_killable()
down_killable() is the functional counterpart of mutex_lock_killable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-17 10:42:40 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox 64ac24e738 Generic semaphore implementation
Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility.  Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning.  Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00