Re: Lots of bugs with current->state = TASK_*INTERRUPTIBLE

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jan 19 2010 - 16:10:51 EST


On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 21:58 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Anyway, this looks like a good janitorial work. Anything that assigns
> > state outside the rq locks to something other than TASK_RUNNING and that
> > is not before a schedule() (perhaps even those) should be converted to:
> >
> > set_current_task(<state>).
>
> Does "not before a schedule" mean not before a schedule_timeout as well?

Yep.

>
> Also, I assume you mean set_current_state?

Yep!

Thanks!

-- Steve


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