linux/include
Paul E. McKenney c4f3060843 sched: Add is_idle_task() to handle invalidated uses of idle_cpu()
Commit 908a3283 (Fix idle_cpu()) invalidated some uses of idle_cpu(),
which used to say whether or not the CPU was running the idle task,
but now instead says whether or not the CPU is running the idle task
in the absence of pending wakeups.  Although this new implementation
gives a better answer to the question "is this CPU idle?", it also
invalidates other uses that were made of idle_cpu().

This commit therefore introduces a new is_idle_task() API member
that determines whether or not the specified task is one of the
idle tasks, allowing open-coded "->pid == 0" sequences to be replaced
by something more meaningful.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:47 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2011-11-07 10:13:52 -08:00
asm-generic asm-generic/unistd.h: support new process_vm_{readv,write} syscalls 2011-12-03 15:31:48 -05:00
crypto crypto: Add a report function pointer to crypto_type 2011-10-21 14:24:03 +02:00
drm drm/radeon/kms: add some new pci ids 2011-12-01 16:34:15 +00:00
keys
linux sched: Add is_idle_task() to handle invalidated uses of idle_cpu() 2011-12-11 10:31:47 -08:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
misc [media] altera-stapl: it is time to move out from staging 2011-09-23 15:00:57 -03:00
mtd mtd: kill old field for `struct mtd_info_user' 2011-09-11 15:57:44 +03:00
net sch_red: fix red_calc_qavg_from_idle_time 2011-11-30 23:27:22 -05:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-11-01 10:51:38 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
target target: remove the unused se_dev_list 2011-12-06 06:00:57 +00:00
trace rcu: Deconfuse dynticks entry-exit tracing 2011-12-11 10:31:42 -08:00
video ARM: OMAP: HWMOD: Unify DSS resets for OMAPs 2011-11-08 03:16:13 -07:00
xen xen: Remove hanging references to CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI 2011-11-16 12:13:42 -05:00
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