Re: [patch] possible SMP races all over the place in wait_event

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT)

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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> set_task_state(curremt, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) as a macro would be a lot nicer ?

Actually, as you can never set the state of another process, it would be
fine to just have

set_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

instead.

However, often the mb()'s really aren't needed due to being implicit in
something else you do, so I don't know..

Linus

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