linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] sched: Add preempt argument to _

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Message-ID: <20150929131841.GC31582@lerouge>
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:18:42 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, oleg@...hat.com,
	umgwanakikbuti@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] sched: Add preempt argument to __schedule()

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:28:30AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> There is only a single PREEMPT_ACTIVE use in the regular __schedule()
> path and that is to circumvent the task->state check. Since the code
> setting PREEMPT_ACTIVE is the immediate caller of __schedule() we can
> replace this with a function argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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