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SubjectRe: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] swait: export the symbols __prepare_to_swait and __finish_swait
Please run this past the swait authors.  It is supposed to be a simple
and self-contained API so I'd expect this patch to be seen critical.

You might be better off to just use the normal complex waitqueues if
you want to micro-optimize like this.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:35:36PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> In order to reduce locking overhead, I use the spinlock in
> swait_queue_head to protect not only the wait queue, but also the list of
> events. Consequently, I need to use unlocked functions __prepare_to_swait
> and __finish_swait. These functions are declared in the file
> include/linux/swait.h, but they are not exported, and so they are not
> useable from kernel modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
>
> ---
> kernel/sched/swait.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/swait.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/swait.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/swait.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ void __prepare_to_swait(struct swait_que
> if (list_empty(&wait->task_list))
> list_add(&wait->task_list, &q->task_list);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__prepare_to_swait);
>
> void prepare_to_swait(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait, int state)
> {
> @@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ void __finish_swait(struct swait_queue_h
> if (!list_empty(&wait->task_list))
> list_del_init(&wait->task_list);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__finish_swait);
>
> void finish_swait(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait)
> {
>
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