linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [V2 1/2]sched:add task_running

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Message-Id: <1586939645-2470-1-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:34:05 +0800
From:   Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [V2 1/2]sched:add task_running_oncpu

>On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:20:57AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 14:04, Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We have no interface whether the task is running,
>> > so we need to add an interface and distinguish CONFIG_SMP.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
>> > ---
>> >  include/linux/sched.h | 10 ++++++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
>> > index 4418f5c..13cc8f5 100644
>> > --- a/include/linux/sched.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
>> > @@ -1843,6 +1843,11 @@ static inline unsigned int task_cpu(const struct task_struct *p)
>> >
>> >  extern void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu);
>> >
>> > +static inline int task_running_oncpu(const struct task_struct *p)
>> 
>> This function name is too close from task_running_on_cpu() and can be
>> misleading as the difference is only "_"
>> Also, how task_running_oncpu() is different from task_running() ?
>
>It doesn't have the (arguably superfluous) rq argument. But yes, agreed,
>if anything lift that thing (without the argument).

I think task_running() should be renamed to task_running_on_rq() like
the naming of task_running_on_cpu(), this is what it originally mean,
and add task_running() (with the task argument only).

I updated the patch for that.