Let the caller know if wake_up_process() was actually called or not; some users can use this information for ad-hoc. Of course returning true does not guarantee that wake_up_process() actually woke anything up. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/rcuwait.h | 2 +- kernel/exit.c | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/rcuwait.h b/include/linux/rcuwait.h index 6e8798458091..3f83b9a12ad3 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcuwait.h +++ b/include/linux/rcuwait.h @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static inline void rcuwait_init(struct rcuwait *w) w->task = NULL; } -extern void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w); +extern bool rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w); /* * The caller is responsible for locking around rcuwait_wait_event(), diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 6cc6cc485d07..b0bb0a8ec4b1 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -234,9 +234,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct *p) goto repeat; } -void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) +bool rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) { struct task_struct *task; + bool ret = false; rcu_read_lock(); @@ -254,10 +255,15 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) smp_mb(); /* (B) */ task = rcu_dereference(w->task); - if (task) + if (task) { wake_up_process(task); + ret = true; + } rcu_read_unlock(); + + return ret; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcuwait_wake_up); /* * Determine if a process group is "orphaned", according to the POSIX -- 2.16.4