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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prev parent 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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