Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:41:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, fredrik.markstrom@windriver.com,
        Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>,
        Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] futex: avoid double wake up in PI futex wait / wake
 on -RT
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>  /*
>   * Wake up the next waiter on the lock.
>   *
> - * Remove the top waiter from the current tasks pi waiter list and
> - * wake it up.
> + * Remove the top waiter from the current tasks pi waiter list take a
> + * reference and return a pointer to it.

That comment is stale from an earlier version of that patch. That
should be:

+ * Remove the top waiter from the current tasks pi waiter list,
+ * wake it up and return whether the current task needs to undo
+ * a potential priority boosting.

Thanks,

	tglx
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