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locking/mutex: Move MCS related comments to proper location

It serves much better if the comments are right before the osq_lock() call.
Also delete a useless comment.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420573509-24774-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Davidlohr Bueso 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 11 deletions
  1. 5 11
      kernel/locking/mutex.c

+ 5 - 11
kernel/locking/mutex.c

@@ -193,17 +193,6 @@ ww_mutex_set_context_fastpath(struct ww_mutex *lock,
 
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
-/*
- * In order to avoid a stampede of mutex spinners from acquiring the mutex
- * more or less simultaneously, the spinners need to acquire a MCS lock
- * first before spinning on the owner field.
- *
- */
-
-/*
- * Mutex spinning code migrated from kernel/sched/core.c
- */
-
 static inline bool owner_running(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
 {
 	if (lock->owner != owner)
@@ -307,6 +296,11 @@ static bool mutex_optimistic_spin(struct mutex *lock,
 	if (!mutex_can_spin_on_owner(lock))
 		goto done;
 
+	/*
+	 * In order to avoid a stampede of mutex spinners trying to
+	 * acquire the mutex all at once, the spinners need to take a
+	 * MCS (queued) lock first before spinning on the owner field.
+	 */
 	if (!osq_lock(&lock->osq))
 		goto done;