Re: [PATCH] rcu: Report a quiescent state when it's exactly in the state

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 11 May 2018 12:25:28 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would also say that one should never call schedule() directly without
> changing its state to something other than TASK_RUNNING. Hence, calling
> schedule directly is saying you are ready to sleep. But that is not the
> case with cond_resched() which should always be called with the state
> as TASK_RUNNING.

To continue this, with tracing, when a task is scheduled out in the
RUNNING state, it is considered preempted, otherwise it is not.

-- Steve