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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>2008-03-14 13:43:13 -0400
committerMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>2008-04-17 10:42:46 -0400
commitf1241c87a16c4fe9f4f51d6ed3589f031c505e8d (patch)
tree2e0ee0f2b864c89eda9067bda0d8a98596e022e7 /include/linux
parentf06d96865861c3dd01520f47e2e61c899db1631f (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/semaphore.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/semaphore.h b/include/linux/semaphore.h
index 88f2a28cc0f1..a107aebd9148 100644
--- a/include/linux/semaphore.h
+++ b/include/linux/semaphore.h
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ extern int __must_check down_killable(struct semaphore *sem);
75extern int __must_check down_trylock(struct semaphore *sem); 75extern int __must_check down_trylock(struct semaphore *sem);
76 76
77/* 77/*
78 * As down(), except this function will return -ETIME if it fails to
79 * acquire the semaphore within the specified number of jiffies.
80 */
81extern int __must_check down_timeout(struct semaphore *sem, long jiffies);
82
83/*
78 * Release the semaphore. Unlike mutexes, up() may be called from any 84 * Release the semaphore. Unlike mutexes, up() may be called from any
79 * context and even by tasks which have never called down(). 85 * context and even by tasks which have never called down().
80 */ 86 */