On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 08:40:00PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:48:59 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand why schedule_idle() needs a loop given that
> > schedule_preempt_disabled() doesn't have one, but other than
>
> But it does:
>
> void __sched schedule_preempt_disabled(void)
> {
> sched_preempt_enable_no_resched();
> schedule();
> preempt_disable();
> }
>
> Where we have:
>
> asmlinkage __visible void __sched schedule(void)
> {
> struct task_struct *tsk = current;
>
> sched_submit_work(tsk);
> do {
> preempt_disable();
> __schedule(false);
> sched_preempt_enable_no_resched();
> } while (need_resched());
> }
>
> Which makes:
>
> void __sched schedule_preempt_disabled(void)
> {
> struct task_struct *tsk = current;
>
> scehdule_preempt_enable_no_resched();
> sched_submit_work(tsk);
> do {
> preempt_disable();
> __schedule(false);
> schedule_preempt_enable_no_resched();
> } while (need_resched());
> preempt_disable();
> }
>
> My schedule_idle() is simply schedule_preempt_disabled() without the
> change in preemption and no call to sched_submit_work().
Ah, thank you!
> > that, for whatever it is worth, it looks good to me.
>
> Does this mean I can change the Cc: to Acked-by: ?
Works for me!
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> -- Steve
>
>
> > > +void __sched schedule_idle(void)
> > > +{
> > > + do {
> > > + __schedule(false);
> > > + } while (need_resched());
> > > +}
> > > +
>
