Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/11] sched: Add preempt argument to __schedule()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:30:26AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:28:39 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:28:30 +0200
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > There is only a single PREEMPT_ACTIVE use in the regular __schedule()
> > > path and that is to circumvent the task->state check. Since the code
> > > setting PREEMPT_ACTIVE is the immediate caller of __schedule() we can
> > > replace this with a function argument.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I just want to note that this scared me at first, because __schedule()
> can be traced by the function tracer that can also do a

See 11/11 :-)

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