Re: [patch] possible SMP races all over the place in wait_event
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:09:28 +0100 (BST)
> Actually, as you can never set the state of another process, it would be
> fine to just have
>
> set_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> instead.
>
> However, often the mb()'s really aren't needed due to being implicit in
> something else you do, so I don't know..
_set_state(blah)
as well then. That also means in future actual code can get into state
changes should it ever become useful for a scheduler change
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