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authorByungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>2015-11-18 09:34:59 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-11-23 09:48:20 +0100
commit525628c73bd6af65f27d927e699e7460d7d55ed3 (patch)
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parentstop_machine: Clean up the usage of the preemption counter in cpu_stopper_thread() (diff)
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sched/fair: Modify the comment about lock assumptions in migrate_task_rq_fair()
The comment describing migrate_task_rq_fair() says that the caller should hold p->pi_lock. But in some cases the caller can hold task_rq(p)->lock instead of p->pi_lock. So the comment is broken and this patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447806899-20303-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f7017ad91400..ff8ec8695957 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5058,8 +5058,7 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
/*
* Called immediately before a task is migrated to a new cpu; task_cpu(p) and
* cfs_rq_of(p) references at time of call are still valid and identify the
- * previous cpu. However, the caller only guarantees p->pi_lock is held; no
- * other assumptions, including the state of rq->lock, should be made.
+ * previous cpu. The caller guarantees p->pi_lock or task_rq(p)->lock is held.
*/
static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p)
{