Re: [PATCH] cleanup sched_yield (sys)call nesting.

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote:
> We are trying to get rid of __sched_yield calls from-inside-the-Kernel,
> but sys_sched_yield() from user-space will remain.
> 
> This patch breaks out the in-Kernel interface for the yield()
> functionality and deprecates it explicitly.
> 
> The sys_sched_yield() variety, however is not deprecated.
> 
> The objective is to deprecate *only* the in-kernel calls to
> sched_yield(), in hopes of reducing new calls to sched_yield() being
> added.

Nothing in the kernel calls sched_yield() because there is no such
function.

> Eventually, when the in-Kernel calls are gone, the __sched_yield() would
> be removed, and the first 2 hunks would essentially be reverted, leaving
> only the user-space caller sys_sched_yield. 
> 
> For the time being we add 2 lines and 2 braces of bulk, in hopes that
> elsewhere this eliminates more __sched_yield() calls being added while
> we work to eliminate the ones that exist already.

Err ? WTF do you need to fiddle in sched.c to deprecate a function ?

Nothing in the kernel calls sys_sched_yield() except the syscall and
the implementation of yield() in sched.c. The drivers,... call yield()
nothing else.

To deprecate yield() all you need is adding __deprecated to the
function prototype in sched.h. And that's the only way you alert users
because it warns when compiling code which _calls_ yield() not when
compiling the implementation in sched.c.

Sigh,

	tglx
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