Re: [PATCH] sched: Update comment of try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 05:31:35 EST



* Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since commit 9b3c4ab3045e ("sched,rcu: Rework
> try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()") renamed
> try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() to task_call_func().
> Now, update some comment about it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 0d18c3969f90..540ac33ddb80 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4186,7 +4186,7 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
> * Pairs with the LOCK+smp_mb__after_spinlock() on rq->lock in
> * __schedule(). See the comment for smp_mb__after_spinlock().
> *
> - * A similar smb_rmb() lives in try_invoke_on_locked_down_task().
> + * A similar smb_rmb() lives in task_call_func().

Except the matching smp_rmb() doesn't live in task_call_func() anymore, so
you now turned a stale comment into a misleading one ...

And how about fixing the obvious 'smb/smp' typo as well?

Thanks,

Ingo