linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Trivial: devtmpfsd: Setting task running/interruptible states

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Message-ID: <20110921155444.GA27121@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:54:44 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, jkosina@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Trivial: devtmpfsd: Setting task
 running/interruptible states

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:09:33PM +0530, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> This trivial patch makes the following changes in devtmpfsd() :

This is not the definition of "trivial" in that you are changing the
logic of the code, not just doing spelling changes.

> - Set the state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE using __set_current_state
>   instead of set_current_state as the spin_unlock is an implicit
>   memory barrier.

Why?  What is this hurting with the original code?

> - After return from schedule(), there is no need to set the current
>   state to TASK_RUNNING as the wake_up_process() function call will
>   do this for us.

Are you sure?

Have you tested this patch and everything works properly?

greg k-h
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