1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 0672ff88f159..d077201b393d 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2102,11 +2102,11 @@ int handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
  * We call schedule in futex_wait_queue_me() when we enqueue and return there
  * via the following:
  * 1) wakeup on uaddr2 after an atomic lock acquisition by futex_requeue()
- * 2) wakeup on uaddr2 after a requeue and subsequent unlock
- * 3) signal (before or after requeue)
- * 4) timeout (before or after requeue)
+ * 2) wakeup on uaddr2 after a requeue
+ * 3) signal
+ * 4) timeout
  *
- * If 3, we setup a restart_block with futex_wait_requeue_pi() as the function.
+ * If 3, cleanup and return -ERESTARTNOINTR.
  *
  * If 2, we may then block on trying to take the rt_mutex and return via:
  * 5) successful lock
@@ -2114,7 +2114,7 @@ int handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
  * 7) timeout
  * 8) other lock acquisition failure
  *
- * If 6, we setup a restart_block with futex_lock_pi() as the function.
+ * If 6, return -EWOULDBLOCK (restarting the syscall would do the same).
  *
  * If 4 or 7, we cleanup and return with -ETIMEDOUT.
  *
@@ -2232,14 +2232,11 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
                         rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex);
         } else if (ret == -EINTR) {
                 /*
-                 * We've already been requeued, but we have no way to
-                 * restart by calling futex_lock_pi() directly. We
-                 * could restart the syscall, but that will look at
-                 * the user space value and return right away. So we
-                 * drop back with EWOULDBLOCK to tell user space that
-                 * "val" has been changed. That's the same what the
-                 * restart of the syscall would do in
-                 * futex_wait_setup().
+                 * We've already been requeued, but cannot restart by calling
+                 * futex_lock_pi() directly. We could restart this syscall, but
+                 * it would detect that the user space "val" changed and return
+                 * -EWOULDBLOCK.  Save the overhead of the restart and return
+                 * -EWOULDBLOCK directly.
                  */
                 ret = -EWOULDBLOCK;
         }