[PATCH] Fix lost wake-up when pthread_rwlock_timedrwlock times out.

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 05:06:49PM +0200, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> If we set up a rwlock to prefer writers (and disallow recursive rdlock
> acquisitions), then readers will block for writers that are blocked to
> acquire the lock (otherwise, readers could constantly enter and exit,
> and the writer would never get the lock).  However, the existing
> implementation did not wake such readers when the writer timed out.
> This patch adds the missing wake-up.
> There's no similar case for writers being blocked on readers.
> 
> Tested on x86_64-linux.  OK?
> 
> 2015-04-22  Torvald Riegel  <triegel@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* nptl/pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock.c (pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock): Add
> 	missing wake-up of readers.
> 	* nptl/tst-rwlock15.c: New file.
> 	* nptl/Makefile (tests): Add new test.
> 

Looks good to me.

Thanks,
Siddhesh
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