linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on use of yield()

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:17:19 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on use of yield()

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 10:00 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 18:54 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:41 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Perhaps the kernel-doc comments in sched/core.c
> > > should/could be expanded/updated. 
> > Something like this?
[]
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
[]
> > @@ -4577,8 +4577,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cond_resched_softirq);
> >  /**
> >   * yield - yield the current processor to other threads.

Perhaps the phrase "other threads" is poor word choice.  Maybe:

yield - yield the current processor to a runnable thread
        (might be the current thread)

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