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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: mkravetz@sequent.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: test9: running tasks not in run-queue
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:21:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0AEB32.D7EBE448@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001108151148.B25050@w-mikek.des.sequent.com> <200011090104.RAA17535@pizda.ninka.net>

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    Date:        Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:11:49 -0800
>    From: Mike Kravetz <mkravetz@sequent.com>
> 
>    The following code in __wake_up_common() is then
>    executed:
> 
>            if (best_exclusive)
>                    best_exclusive->state = TASK_RUNNING;
>            wq_write_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> 
> test10 fixes this error, now it sets TASK_RUNNING and
> adds the task back to the runqueue all under the runqueue
> lock.

In our preemptable kernel work we often put (or leave) tasks on the run
queue that are not in state TASK_RUNNING and want to treat them as if
they are in state TASK_RUNNING.  We thus changed the test in schedule()
to "task_on_runqueue(prev)"....

George
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-11-09 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-08 23:11 test9: running tasks not in run-queue Mike Kravetz
2000-11-09  1:04 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-09 18:21   ` George Anzinger [this message]

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