On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 10:33 -0600, Jason Wessel wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:19 -0600, Jason Wessel wrote: > >> +kdb_prio(char *name, struct rt_prio_array *array, kdb_printf_t xxx_printf, > [..] > >> +kdb_runqueue(unsigned long cpu, kdb_printf_t xxx_printf) > [..] > > > > So what is this code supposed to do? It looks like it simply cannot be > > correct. > > > > Beyond the fact that the code may not be right, it is a small part of > a kdb module which is not included, and these functions can > immediately disappear. For reference, the original kdb module was > called "kdbm_sched" and I believe it was intended as an aid to help > debug the scheduler and process priorities in earlier versions of the > kernel. > > I have removed all this code and reduced the patch to kernel/sched.c > to the following. Awesome. Please let me know if in the future you find the need for similar helpers, I'm sure we can figure out something that'll work as intended. > The reason we need the attached patch is to be able to call > curr_task() for kdb to perform some basic per cpu task analysis while > the system is stopped. Right, so this set_curr_task() thing is way scary, maybe we can simplify things to only expose curr_task()? > --- a/kernel/sched.c > +++ b/kernel/sched.c > @@ -9784,9 +9784,9 @@ void normalize_rt_tasks(void) > > #endif /* CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ */ > > -#ifdef CONFIG_IA64 > +#if defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_KGDB_KDB) > /* > - * These functions are only useful for the IA64 MCA handling. > + * These functions are only useful for the IA64 MCA handling, or kdb. > * > * They can only be called when the whole system has been > * stopped - every CPU needs to be quiescent, and no scheduling -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html