Re: [PATCH] sched: add wait_for_completion_killable_timeout

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:16 -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> Do I need an ACK on this, or should I just send this to Linus with the 
> Ceph fix?  It's a pretty trivial fixup.

> > --- a/kernel/sched.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> > @@ -4161,6 +4161,23 @@ int __sched wait_for_completion_killable(struct completion *x)
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_killable);
> >  
> >  /**
> > + * wait_for_completion_killable_timeout: - waits for completion of a task (w/(to,killable))
> > + * @x:  holds the state of this particular completion
> > + * @timeout:  timeout value in jiffies
> > + *
> > + * This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be
> > + * signaled or for a specified timeout to expire. It can be
> > + * interrupted by a kill signal. The timeout is in jiffies.
> > + */
> > +unsigned long __sched
> > +wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(struct completion *x,
> > +				     unsigned long timeout)
> > +{
> > +	return wait_for_common(x, timeout, TASK_KILLABLE);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_killable_timeout);
> > +
> > +/**
> >   *	try_wait_for_completion - try to decrement a completion without blocking
> >   *	@x:	completion structure
> >   *

I guess its ok, although I have an intrinsic suspicion of all things
timeout, but since we have plenty of those interfaces around I can't
object too much ;-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>