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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on use of yield()
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:17:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331057839.2140.12.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331056859.2140.7.camel@joe2Laptop>

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 10:00 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 18:54 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:41 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Perhaps the kernel-doc comments in sched/core.c
> > > should/could be expanded/updated. 
> > Something like this?
[]
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
[]
> > @@ -4577,8 +4577,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cond_resched_softirq);
> >  /**
> >   * yield - yield the current processor to other threads.

Perhaps the phrase "other threads" is poor word choice.  Maybe:

yield - yield the current processor to a runnable thread
        (might be the current thread)

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-06 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02 11:23 [PATCH] cpuset: mm: Remove memory barrier damage from the page allocator Mel Gorman
2012-03-02 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-02 17:43   ` Mel Gorman
2012-03-02 19:53     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-02 21:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-02 23:47       ` David Rientjes
2012-03-05  9:44         ` Mel Gorman
2012-03-06 23:31           ` David Rientjes
2012-03-05  9:35       ` Mel Gorman
2012-03-02 21:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-05 20:18   ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-06  2:01     ` [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on use of yield() Joe Perches
2012-03-06 12:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 13:14         ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-06 13:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 13:27             ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-06 17:41         ` Joe Perches
2012-03-06 17:54           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 18:00             ` Joe Perches
2012-03-06 18:17               ` Joe Perches [this message]

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