ipc/sem: rework task wakeups

Our sysv sems have been using the notion of lockless wakeups for a
while, ever since commit 0a2b9d4c7967 ("ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process
out of the spinlock section"), in order to reduce the sem_lock hold
times.  This in-house pending queue can be replaced by wake_q (just like
all the rest of ipc now), in that it provides the following advantages:

 o Simplifies and gets rid of unnecessary code.

 o We get rid of the IN_WAKEUP complexities. Given that wake_q_add()
   grabs reference to the task, if awoken due to an unrelated event,
   between the wake_q_add() and wake_up_q() window, we cannot race with
   sys_exit and the imminent call to wake_up_process().

 o By not spinning IN_WAKEUP, we no longer need to disable preemption.

In consequence, the wakeup paths (after schedule(), that is) must
acknowledge an external signal/event, as well spurious wakeup occurring
during the pending wakeup window.  Obviously no changes in semantics
that could be visible to the user.  The fastpath is _only_ for when we
know for sure that we were awoken due to a the waker's successful semop
call (queue.status is not -EINTR).

On a 48-core Haswell, running the ipcscale 'waitforzero' test, the
following is seen with increasing thread counts:

                               v4.8-rc5                v4.8-rc5
                                                        semopv2
Hmean    sembench-sem-2      574733.00 (  0.00%)   578322.00 (  0.62%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-8      811708.00 (  0.00%)   824689.00 (  1.59%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-12     842448.00 (  0.00%)   845409.00 (  0.35%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-21     933003.00 (  0.00%)   977748.00 (  4.80%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-48     935910.00 (  0.00%)  1004759.00 (  7.36%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-79     937186.00 (  0.00%)   983976.00 (  4.99%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-234    974256.00 (  0.00%)  1060294.00 (  8.83%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-265    975468.00 (  0.00%)  1016243.00 (  4.18%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-296    991280.00 (  0.00%)  1042659.00 (  5.18%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-327    975415.00 (  0.00%)  1029977.00 (  5.59%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-358   1014286.00 (  0.00%)  1049624.00 (  3.48%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-389    972939.00 (  0.00%)  1043127.00 (  7.21%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-420    981909.00 (  0.00%)  1056747.00 (  7.62%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-451    990139.00 (  0.00%)  1051609.00 (  6.21%)
Hmean    sembench-sem-482    965735.00 (  0.00%)  1040313.00 (  7.72%)

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
[[email protected]: merge fix for WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q rename]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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