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H A Dcompletion.cda9647e0 Wed Dec 21 08:05:02 GMT 2016 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> sched/completions: Fix complete_all() semantics

Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt says this about complete_all():

"calls complete_all() to signal all current and future waiters."

Which doesn't strictly match the current semantics. Currently
complete_all() is equivalent to UINT_MAX/2 complete() invocations,
which is distinctly less than 'all current and future waiters'
(enumerable vs innumerable), although it has worked in practice.

However, Dmitry had a weird case where it might matter, so change
completions to use saturation semantics for complete()/complete_all().
Once done hits UINT_MAX (and complete_all() sets it there) it will
never again be decremented.

Requested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: der.herr@hofr.at
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>