Commit 931ab4a5 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

atomics: Revert addition of comment header to spin_unlock_wait()

There is still considerable confusion as to the semantics of
spin_unlock_wait(), but there seems to be universal agreement that
it is not that of a lock/unlock pair.  This commit therefore removes
the comment added by 6016ffc3 ("atomics: Add header comment so
spin_unlock_wait()") in order to prevent at least that flavor of
confusion.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 520eccdf
......@@ -369,26 +369,6 @@ static __always_inline int spin_trylock_irq(spinlock_t *lock)
raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(spinlock_check(lock), flags); \
})
/**
* spin_unlock_wait - Interpose between successive critical sections
* @lock: the spinlock whose critical sections are to be interposed.
*
* Semantically this is equivalent to a spin_lock() immediately
* followed by a spin_unlock(). However, most architectures have
* more efficient implementations in which the spin_unlock_wait()
* cannot block concurrent lock acquisition, and in some cases
* where spin_unlock_wait() does not write to the lock variable.
* Nevertheless, spin_unlock_wait() can have high overhead, so if
* you feel the need to use it, please check to see if there is
* a better way to get your job done.
*
* The ordering guarantees provided by spin_unlock_wait() are:
*
* 1. All accesses preceding the spin_unlock_wait() happen before
* any accesses in later critical sections for this same lock.
* 2. All accesses following the spin_unlock_wait() happen after
* any accesses in earlier critical sections for this same lock.
*/
static __always_inline void spin_unlock_wait(spinlock_t *lock)
{
raw_spin_unlock_wait(&lock->rlock);
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