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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/core.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 883167a57bf9..f53c0096860b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4264,6 +4264,38 @@ int task_call_func(struct task_struct *p, task_call_f func, void *arg) } /** + * cpu_curr_snapshot - Return a snapshot of the currently running task + * @cpu: The CPU on which to snapshot the task. + * + * Returns the task_struct pointer of the task "currently" running on + * the specified CPU. If the same task is running on that CPU throughout, + * the return value will be a pointer to that task's task_struct structure. + * If the CPU did any context switches even vaguely concurrently with the + * execution of this function, the return value will be a pointer to the + * task_struct structure of a randomly chosen task that was running on + * that CPU somewhere around the time that this function was executing. + * + * If the specified CPU was offline, the return value is whatever it + * is, perhaps a pointer to the task_struct structure of that CPU's idle + * task, but there is no guarantee. Callers wishing a useful return + * value must take some action to ensure that the specified CPU remains + * online throughout. + * + * This function executes full memory barriers before and after fetching + * the pointer, which permits the caller to confine this function's fetch + * with respect to the caller's accesses to other shared variables. + */ +struct task_struct *cpu_curr_snapshot(int cpu) +{ + struct task_struct *t; + + smp_mb(); /* Pairing determined by caller's synchronization design. */ + t = rcu_dereference(cpu_curr(cpu)); + smp_mb(); /* Pairing determined by caller's synchronization design. */ + return t; +} + +/** * wake_up_process - Wake up a specific process * @p: The process to be woken up. * |