Re: [PATCH, RFC] protect call to set_tsk_need_resched() by the rq-lock

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michael Buesch <mbuesch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The two attached patches (one against vanilla kernel and one against
> ck patchset) moves the rq-lock a few lines up in scheduler_tick() to
> also protect set_tsk_need_resched().
> 
> Is that neccessary?

scheduler_tick() is a special case, 'current' is pinned and cannot go
away, nor can it get off the runqueue. So the patch is not needed.

	Ingo
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