sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives

Add a section to the memory barriers document to note the implied
memory barriers of sleep primitives (set_current_state() and wrappers)
and wake-up primitives (wake_up() and co.).

Also extend the in-code comments on the wake_up() functions to note
these implied barriers.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090428140138.1192.94723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index b902e587a3a0..fd0c2cee3f35 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2458,6 +2458,17 @@ out:
         return success;
 }
 
+/**
+ * wake_up_process - Wake up a specific process
+ * @p: The process to be woken up.
+ *
+ * Attempt to wake up the nominated process and move it to the set of runnable
+ * processes.  Returns 1 if the process was woken up, 0 if it was already
+ * running.
+ *
+ * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
+ * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
+ */
 int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *p)
 {
         return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_ALL, 0);
@@ -5241,6 +5252,9 @@ void __wake_up_common(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
  * @mode: which threads
  * @nr_exclusive: how many wake-one or wake-many threads to wake up
  * @key: is directly passed to the wakeup function
+ *
+ * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
+ * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
  */
 void __wake_up(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
                         int nr_exclusive, void *key)
@@ -5279,6 +5293,9 @@ void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key)
  * with each other. This can prevent needless bouncing between CPUs.
  *
  * On UP it can prevent extra preemption.
+ *
+ * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
+ * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
  */
 void __wake_up_sync_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode,
                         int nr_exclusive, void *key)
@@ -5315,6 +5332,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync);	/* For internal use only */
  * awakened in the same order in which they were queued.
  *
  * See also complete_all(), wait_for_completion() and related routines.
+ *
+ * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
+ * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
  */
 void complete(struct completion *x)
 {
@@ -5332,6 +5352,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete);
  * @x:  holds the state of this particular completion
  *
  * This will wake up all threads waiting on this particular completion event.
+ *
+ * It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before
+ * changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.
  */
 void complete_all(struct completion *x)
 {