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-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index bfd946a9ad01..9ef4231cce61 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -429,20 +429,20 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
#endif
/*
- * Only wake up if the pipe started out empty, since
- * otherwise there should be no readers waiting.
+ * Epoll nonsensically wants a wakeup whether the pipe
+ * was already empty or not.
*
* If it wasn't empty we try to merge new data into
* the last buffer.
*
* That naturally merges small writes, but it also
- * page-aligs the rest of the writes for large writes
+ * page-aligns the rest of the writes for large writes
* spanning multiple pages.
*/
head = pipe->head;
- was_empty = pipe_empty(head, pipe->tail);
+ was_empty = true;
chars = total_len & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
- if (chars && !was_empty) {
+ if (chars && !pipe_empty(head, pipe->tail)) {
unsigned int mask = pipe->ring_size - 1;
struct pipe_buffer *buf = &pipe->bufs[(head - 1) & mask];
int offset = buf->offset + buf->len;