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Re: [PATCH 1/3] idle: add support for tasks that inject idle

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:05:10AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
>  static inline bool is_idle_task(const struct task_struct *p)
>  {
> -	return p->pid == 0;
> +	return !!(p->flags & PF_IDLE);
>  }

> +void play_idle()
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Only FIFO tasks can disable the tick since they don't need the forced
> +	 * preemption.
> +	 */
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(current->policy != SCHED_FIFO);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(current->nr_cpus_allowed != 1);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD));
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY));
> +	rcu_sleep_check();
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	current->flags |= PF_IDLE;
> +	do_idle();
> +	current->flags &= ~PF_IDLE;

Whoops, that will clear PF_IDLE from the idle thread. Maybe do something
like:

	unsigned int idle_flag = (~current->flags & PF_IDLE)

	current->flags |= PF_IDLE;

	current->flags ^= idle_flag;

> +
> +	preempt_fold_need_resched();
> +	preempt_enable();
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(play_idle);

> @@ -299,5 +313,7 @@ void cpu_startup_entry(enum cpuhp_state state)
>  #endif
>  	arch_cpu_idle_prepare();
>  	cpuhp_online_idle(state);
> -	cpu_idle_loop();
> +	while (1)
> +		do_idle();
> +
>  }

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] idle: add support for tasks that inject idle Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-14 16:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] idle: add support for tasks that inject idle Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-14 16:10 +0100

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