From: "Paul E. McKenney" Commit 908a3283 (Fix idle_cpu()) invalidated some uses of idle_cpu(), which used to say whether or not the CPU was running the idle task, but now instead says whether or not the CPU is running the idle task in the absence of pending wakeups. Although this new implementation gives a better answer to the question "is this CPU idle?", it also invalidates other uses that were made of idle_cpu(). This commit therefore introduces a new is_idle_task() API member that determines whether or not the specified task is one of the idle tasks, allowing open-coded "->pid == 0" sequences to be replaced by something more meaningful. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 41c0979..dddabbb 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2163,6 +2163,14 @@ extern int sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *, int, extern int sched_setscheduler_nocheck(struct task_struct *, int, const struct sched_param *); extern struct task_struct *idle_task(int cpu); +/** + * is_idle_task - is the specified task an idle task? + * @tsk: the task in question. + */ +static inline bool is_idle_task(struct task_struct *p) +{ + return p->pid == 0; +} extern struct task_struct *curr_task(int cpu); extern void set_curr_task(int cpu, struct task_struct *p); -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/