On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 03:51:16PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 06/05, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > Also, I think we still need TASK_PARKED as a special state for that. > > I think it would be nice to kill the TASK_PARKED state altogether. But I don't > know how. I'll try to look at this code later, but I am not sure I will find a > way to cleanup it... So the nice thing about having TASK_PARKED is that it guarantees no spurious wakeups. You know the thread will not wake up while it's CPU is gone. We could possibly re-purpose TASK_STOPPED (because kernel threads don't do that) but that seems dodgy at best. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
