Re: [TIP][RFC 2/7] futex: futex_top_waiter()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Mar 07 2009 - 10:19:53 EST


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Darren Hart wrote:

> From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Improve legibility by wrapping finding the top waiter in a function. This
> will be used by the follow-on patches for enabling requeue pi.
> +static struct futex_q *futex_top_waiter(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
> + union futex_key *key)

Can we just have *head as argument instead of *hb ?

> +{
> + struct plist_head *head;
> + struct futex_q *this;
> + struct futex_q *top_waiter = NULL;

struct futex_q *this;

> + head = &hb->chain;
> + plist_for_each_entry(this, head, list) {
> + if (match_futex(&this->key, key)) {
return this;

> + top_waiter = this;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> + return top_waiter;

return NULL;

Makes the function half the size.

Thanks,

tglx
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