4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> commit c6b9d9a33029014446bd9ed84c1688f6d3d4eab9 upstream. The following cleanup commit: 50816c48997a ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries") ... unintentionally changed the behavior of add_wait_queue() from inserting the wait entry at the head of the wait queue to the tail of the wait queue. Beyond a negative performance impact this change in behavior theoretically also breaks wait queues which mix exclusive and non-exclusive waiters, as non-exclusive waiters will not be woken up if they are queued behind enough exclusive waiters. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx Fixes: ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a16c8ccffd39bd08fdaa45a5192294c784b803a7.1512544324.git.osandov@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/wait.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void add_wait_queue(struct wait_queue_he wq_entry->flags &= ~WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE; spin_lock_irqsave(&wq_head->lock, flags); - __add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wq_head, wq_entry); + __add_wait_queue(wq_head, wq_entry); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq_head->lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_wait_queue);