linux-kernel - Re: Lots of bugs with current->state = TASK

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:08:53 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: Lots of bugs with current->state = TASK_*INTERRUPTIBLE

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 21:58 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Anyway, this looks like a good janitorial work. Anything that assigns
> > state outside the rq locks to something other than TASK_RUNNING and that
> > is not before a schedule() (perhaps even those) should be converted to:
> > 
> > 	set_current_task(<state>).
> 
> Does "not before a schedule" mean not before a schedule_timeout as well?

Yep.

> 
> Also, I assume you mean set_current_state?

Yep!

Thanks!

-- Steve


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