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Confusing comment in reschedule_idle - unlock of runqueue.

DISCUSSION Roger Larsson 1 participant 1 message Nov 16, 2000

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Hi,

This comment is written in head of reschedule_idle, is it really correct?

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/*
* This is ugly, but reschedule_idle() is very timing-critical.
* We enter with the runqueue spinlock held, but we might end
* up unlocking it early, so the caller must not unlock the
* runqueue, it's always done by reschedule_idle().
*
* This function must be inline as anything that saves and restores
* flags has to do so within the same register window on sparc (Anton) */
static FASTCALL(void reschedule_idle(struct task_struct * p));

static void reschedule_idle(struct task_struct * p)
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If it is then, wake_up_process and schedule_tail are wrong. But I think not...

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	reschedule_idle(p);
out:
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&runqueue_lock, flags);

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/RogerL

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