Commit 8b32201d authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds

wait: explain the shadowing and type inconsistencies

Stick in a comment before someone else tries to fix the sparse warning
this generates.
Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-o2ro6f3vkxklni0bc8f7m68s@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9cc23682
......@@ -191,11 +191,23 @@ wait_queue_head_t *bit_waitqueue(void *, int);
(!__builtin_constant_p(state) || \
state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE || state == TASK_KILLABLE) \
/*
* The below macro ___wait_event() has an explicit shadow of the __ret
* variable when used from the wait_event_*() macros.
*
* This is so that both can use the ___wait_cond_timeout() construct
* to wrap the condition.
*
* The type inconsistency of the wait_event_*() __ret variable is also
* on purpose; we use long where we can return timeout values and int
* otherwise.
*/
#define ___wait_event(wq, condition, state, exclusive, ret, cmd) \
({ \
__label__ __out; \
wait_queue_t __wait; \
long __ret = ret; \
long __ret = ret; /* explicit shadow */ \
\
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&__wait.task_list); \
if (exclusive) \
......
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