sched, hw-branch-tracer: add wait_task_context_switch() function to sched.h

Add a function to wait until some other task has been
switched out at least once.

This differs from wait_task_inactive() subtly, in that the
latter will wait until the task has left the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Markus Metzger 2009-04-03 16:43:34 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -2002,6 +2002,49 @@ migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, int dest_cpu, struct migration_req *req)
return 1;
}
/*
* wait_task_context_switch - wait for a thread to complete at least one
* context switch.
*
* @p must not be current.
*/
void wait_task_context_switch(struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw, flags;
int running;
struct rq *rq;
nvcsw = p->nvcsw;
nivcsw = p->nivcsw;
for (;;) {
/*
* The runqueue is assigned before the actual context
* switch. We need to take the runqueue lock.
*
* We could check initially without the lock but it is
* very likely that we need to take the lock in every
* iteration.
*/
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
running = task_running(rq, p);
task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
if (likely(!running))
break;
/*
* The switch count is incremented before the actual
* context switch. We thus wait for two switches to be
* sure at least one completed.
*/
if ((p->nvcsw - nvcsw) > 1)
break;
if ((p->nivcsw - nivcsw) > 1)
break;
cpu_relax();
}
}
/*
* wait_task_inactive - wait for a thread to unschedule.
*