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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Remove unused variable ret from sync_thread_master()
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:26:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131112162634.GB29065@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131112143152.GS5056@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 11/12, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 02:21:39PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
> >
> >     /* Tell scheduler we are going to sleep... */
> >     if (signal_pending(current))
> >         /* We don't want waking immediately (again) */
> >         sleep_state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
> >     else
> >         sleep_state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> >     set_current_state(sleep_state);
>
> If this is for kernel threads, I think you can wipe the pending state;

Yes, unless this kthread does allow_signal() signal_pending() can't be
true.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-12 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-12 13:53 [PATCH] ipvs: Remove unused variable ret from sync_thread_master() Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-11-12 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 14:21   ` David Laight
2013-11-12 14:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 14:38       ` David Laight
2013-11-12 16:26       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-11-12 14:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 16:21       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-12 16:56         ` oom-kill && frozen() Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13  3:20           ` Tejun Heo
2013-11-13 17:07             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 17:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-13 18:15                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 19:11               ` __refrigerator() && saved task->state Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-13 19:14                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-13 19:40                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-12 17:00         ` [PATCH] ipvs: Remove unused variable ret from sync_thread_master() Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 18:04           ` Oleg Nesterov

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