Rather than always releasing the prisoners in a cell, the client may
want to promote one of them to be the new holder. There is a race here
though between releasing an empty cell, and other threads adding new
inmates. So this function makes the decision with its lock held.
This function can have two outcomes:
i) An inmate is promoted to be the holder of the cell (return value of 0).
ii) The cell has no inmate for promotion and is released (return value of 1).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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