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futex: Add memory barrier commentary to futex_wait_queue_me()

The memory barrier semantics of futex_wait_queue_me() are
non-obvious. Add some commentary to try and clarify it.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090924185447.694.38948.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      kernel/futex.c

+ 6 - 0
kernel/futex.c

@@ -1656,6 +1656,12 @@ out:
 static void futex_wait_queue_me(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *q,
 				struct hrtimer_sleeper *timeout)
 {
+	/*
+	 * The task state is guaranteed to be set before another task can
+	 * wake it. set_current_state() is implemented using set_mb() and
+	 * queue_me() calls spin_unlock() upon completion, both serializing
+	 * access to the hash list and forcing another memory barrier.
+	 */
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 	queue_me(q, hb);