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authorWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>2014-11-04 12:01:41 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-11-16 10:58:54 +0100
commita1bd5373357d3edc4b97548747d583c3efa484b3 (patch)
tree9772a0ec18b3d64d20a043597cfe96f427146778 /kernel/sched
parentf622b429dadf83c3cc2d70f57f407ad85684eb36 (diff)
sched/completion: Document when to use wait_for_completion_io_*()
As discussed in [1], accounting IO is meant for blkio only. Document that so driver authors won't use them for device io. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/20470 Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415098901-2768-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/completion.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
index a63f4dc27909..607f852b4d04 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_timeout);
*
* This waits to be signaled for completion of a specific task. It is NOT
* interruptible and there is no timeout. The caller is accounted as waiting
- * for IO.
+ * for IO (which traditionally means blkio only).
*/
void __sched wait_for_completion_io(struct completion *x)
{
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_io);
*
* This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be signaled or for a
* specified timeout to expire. The timeout is in jiffies. It is not
- * interruptible. The caller is accounted as waiting for IO.
+ * interruptible. The caller is accounted as waiting for IO (which traditionally
+ * means blkio only).
*
* Return: 0 if timed out, and positive (at least 1, or number of jiffies left
* till timeout) if completed.