Let the caller know if wake_up_process() was actually called or not;
some users can use this information for ad-hoc. Of course returning
true does not guarantee that wake_up_process() actually woke anything
up.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbu...@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/rcuwait.h |  2 +-
 kernel/exit.c           | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcuwait.h b/include/linux/rcuwait.h
index 6e8798458091..3f83b9a12ad3 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcuwait.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcuwait.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static inline void rcuwait_init(struct rcuwait *w)
        w->task = NULL;
 }
 
-extern void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w);
+extern bool rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w);
 
 /*
  * The caller is responsible for locking around rcuwait_wait_event(),
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 6cc6cc485d07..b0bb0a8ec4b1 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -234,9 +234,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct *p)
                goto repeat;
 }
 
-void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w)
+bool rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w)
 {
        struct task_struct *task;
+       bool ret = false;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
 
@@ -254,10 +255,15 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w)
        smp_mb(); /* (B) */
 
        task = rcu_dereference(w->task);
-       if (task)
+       if (task) {
                wake_up_process(task);
+               ret = true;
+       }
        rcu_read_unlock();
+
+       return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcuwait_wake_up);
 
 /*
  * Determine if a process group is "orphaned", according to the POSIX
-- 
2.16.4

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