On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > > So, is it possible to enable IRQs across the call to _switch_to?
> >
> > Yes, this should work :
> >
> > if (likely(prev != next)) {
> > rq->nr_switches++;
> > rq->curr = next;
> > next->cpu = prev->cpu;
> > spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
> > context_switch(prev, next);
> > } else
> > spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
>
> this change is incredibly broken on SMP - eg. what protects 'prev' from
> being executed on another CPU prematurely. It's even broken on UP:
> interrupt context that changes current->need_resched needs to be aware of
> nonatomic context switches. See my previous mail.
yup, true. no more schedule_tail()
- Davide
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