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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-08-04 07:42:54 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-08-04 07:48:12 (GMT) |
commit | bef033a3c68a0cd31c81973946be768e9dd7ba42 (patch) | |
tree | f716e094e5ec99ee369a96734e61ce2f72c1fb6d /arch/sparc/kernel | |
parent | 3c8e4793556981a7f532599959aa3303968056f0 (diff) | |
download | linux-bef033a3c68a0cd31c81973946be768e9dd7ba42.tar.xz |
sched, sparc32: Update scheduler comments in copy_thread()
There's no finish_arch_switch() anymore in the latest scheduler tree.
Also update some other details.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c index 50e7b62..c5113c7 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c @@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, childregs = (struct pt_regs *) (new_stack + STACKFRAME_SZ); /* - * A new process must start with interrupts closed in 2.5, - * because this is how Mingo's scheduler works (see schedule_tail - * and finish_arch_switch). If we do not do it, a timer interrupt hits - * before we unlock, attempts to re-take the rq->lock, and then we die. - * Thus, kpsr|=PSR_PIL. + * A new process must start with interrupts disabled, see schedule_tail() + * and finish_task_switch(). (If we do not do it and if a timer interrupt + * hits before we unlock and attempts to take the rq->lock, we deadlock.) + * + * Thus, kpsr |= PSR_PIL. */ ti->ksp = (unsigned long) new_stack; p->thread.kregs = childregs; |