sched: Update yield() docs
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331056466.11248.327.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -4577,8 +4577,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cond_resched_softirq);
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/**
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* yield - yield the current processor to other threads.
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* yield - yield the current processor to other threads.
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* This is a shortcut for kernel-space yielding - it marks the
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* Do not ever use this function, there's a 99% chance you're doing it wrong.
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* thread runnable and calls sys_sched_yield().
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* The scheduler is at all times free to pick the calling task as the most
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* eligible task to run, if removing the yield() call from your code breaks
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* it, its already broken.
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* Typical broken usage is:
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* while (!event)
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* yield();
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* where one assumes that yield() will let 'the other' process run that will
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* make event true. If the current task is a SCHED_FIFO task that will never
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* happen. Never use yield() as a progress guarantee!!
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* If you want to use yield() to wait for something, use wait_event().
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* If you want to use yield() to be 'nice' for others, use cond_resched().
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* If you still want to use yield(), do not!
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void __sched yield(void)
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void __sched yield(void)
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{
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