On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > In commit c1221321b7c25b53204447cff9949a6d5a7ddddc > sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout > > I suggested that a "wait_on_bit_timeout()" interface would not meet my > need. This isn't true - I was just over-engineering. > > Including a 'private' field in wait_bit_key instead of a focused > "timeout" field was just premature generalization. If some other > use is ever found, it can be generalized or added later. > > So this patch renames "private" to "timeout" with a meaning "stop > waiting when "jiffies" reaches or passes "timeout", > and adds two of the many possible wait..bit..timeout() interfaces: > > wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout(), which is the one I want to use, > and out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout() which is a reasonably general > example. Others can be added as needed. > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/pagemap.h | 2 ++ > include/linux/wait.h | 5 ++++- > kernel/sched/wait.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > mm/filemap.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
