[PATCH v2 06/12] sched/wait: Add a waitqueue helper for fully exclusive priority waiters

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Tue May 20 13:57:01 PDT 2025


On Tue, May 20, 2025, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 11:55:08AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
> > index 51e38f5f4701..03252badb8e8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
> > @@ -47,6 +47,24 @@ void add_wait_queue_priority(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_wait_queue_priority);
> >  
> > +int add_wait_queue_priority_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head,
> > +				      struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry)
> > +{
> > +	struct list_head *head = &wq_head->head;
> > +
> > +	wq_entry->flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE | WQ_FLAG_PRIORITY;
> > +
> > +	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&wq_head->lock);
> > +
> > +	if (!list_empty(head) &&
> > +	    (list_first_entry(head, typeof(*wq_entry), entry)->flags & WQ_FLAG_PRIORITY))
> > +		return -EBUSY;
> > +
> > +	list_add(&wq_entry->entry, head);
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_wait_queue_priority_exclusive);
> 
> add_wait_queue_priority() is a GPL export, leading me to believe the
> whole priority thing is _GPL only, should we maintain that?

Oh, yes, definitely.  Simply a goof.



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