diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_cond_broadcast.c b/src/thread/pthread_cond_broadcast.c
index 9c6a462b781bd5bb6435df47f6890c02c41b2f4a..848e288f5ea6dc25de38b901210bbace6f2bc2de 100644
--- a/src/thread/pthread_cond_broadcast.c
+++ b/src/thread/pthread_cond_broadcast.c
@@ -22,12 +22,8 @@ int pthread_cond_broadcast(pthread_cond_t *c)
 	m = c->_c_mutex;
 
 	/* Move waiter count to the mutex */
-	for (;;) {
-		int w = c->_c_waiters2;
-		a_fetch_add(&m->_m_waiters, w);
-		if (a_cas(&c->_c_waiters2, w, 0) == w) break;
-		a_fetch_add(&m->_m_waiters, -w);
-	}
+	a_fetch_add(&m->_m_waiters, c->_c_waiters2);
+	c->_c_waiters2 = 0;
 
 	/* Perform the futex requeue, waking one waiter unless we know
 	 * that the calling thread holds the mutex. */
diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_cond_timedwait.c b/src/thread/pthread_cond_timedwait.c
index e3dc8147c8b3ae89569a6f4d4a2751147ed5d9e4..db2744bad7b7c36c4f7cf7b0ac47a8f49222316b 100644
--- a/src/thread/pthread_cond_timedwait.c
+++ b/src/thread/pthread_cond_timedwait.c
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ struct cm {
 
 static void unwait(pthread_cond_t *c, pthread_mutex_t *m)
 {
-	int w;
-
 	/* Removing a waiter is non-trivial if we could be using requeue
 	 * based broadcast signals, due to mutex access issues, etc. */
 
@@ -20,10 +18,8 @@ static void unwait(pthread_cond_t *c, pthread_mutex_t *m)
 	while (a_swap(&c->_c_lock, 1))
 		__wait(&c->_c_lock, &c->_c_lockwait, 1, 1);
 
-	/* Atomically decrement waiters2 if positive, else mutex waiters. */
-	do w = c->_c_waiters2;
-	while (w && a_cas(&c->_c_waiters2, w, w-1)!=w);
-	if (!w) a_dec(&m->_m_waiters);
+	if (c->_c_waiters2) c->_c_waiters2--;
+	else a_dec(&m->_m_waiters);
 
 	a_store(&c->_c_lock, 0);
 	if (c->_c_lockwait) __wake(&c->_c_lock, 1, 1);
@@ -46,10 +42,16 @@ int pthread_cond_timedwait(pthread_cond_t *c, pthread_mutex_t *m, const struct t
 
 	pthread_testcancel();
 
-	if (c->_c_mutex != (void *)-1) c->_c_mutex = m;
-
 	a_inc(&c->_c_waiters);
-	a_inc(&c->_c_waiters2);
+
+	if (c->_c_mutex != (void *)-1) {
+		c->_c_mutex = m;
+		while (a_swap(&c->_c_lock, 1))
+			__wait(&c->_c_lock, &c->_c_lockwait, 1, 1);
+		c->_c_waiters2++;
+		a_store(&c->_c_lock, 0);
+		if (c->_c_lockwait) __wake(&c->_c_lock, 1, 1);
+	}
 
 	seq = c->_c_seq;