[PATCH] sched: Remove broken check for skip clock update

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Jan 07 2013 - 20:07:28 EST


rq->skip_clock_update shouldn't be negative. Thus the check
in put_prev_task() is useless.

It was probably intended to do the following check:

if (prev->on_rq && !rq->skip_clock_update)

We only want to update the clock if the current task is
not voluntarily sleeping: otherwise deactivate_task()
already did the rq clock update in schedule(). But we want
to ignore that update if a ttwu did it for us, in which case
rq->skip_clock_update is 1.

But update_rq_clock() already takes care of that so we
can just remove the broken condition.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 15ba35e..8dfc461 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2886,7 +2886,7 @@ static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev)

static void put_prev_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
{
- if (prev->on_rq || rq->skip_clock_update < 0)
+ if (prev->on_rq)
update_rq_clock(rq);
prev->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, prev);
}
--
1.7.5.4

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