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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-02-06 12:57:33 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-03-03 03:45:22 +0300
commit56cd697366b6d6f67acb6c58ac7f3b185d11ef07 (patch)
treec0866c89f50b5c511d88ab356845b4eb534cda87 /include/linux/sched
parentcdc75e9f7b14f29efcf4b162a3c673733e96db79 (diff)
downloadlinux-56cd697366b6d6f67acb6c58ac7f3b185d11ef07.tar.xz
sched/headers: Move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h>
The task_lock()/task_unlock() APIs are not realated to core scheduling, they are task lifetime APIs, i.e. they belong into <linux/sched/task.h>. Move them. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched/task.h20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index 1be049a18d1b..2be9fde588a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -91,4 +91,24 @@ static inline struct vm_struct *task_stack_vm_area(const struct task_struct *t)
}
#endif
+/*
+ * Protects ->fs, ->files, ->mm, ->group_info, ->comm, keyring
+ * subscriptions and synchronises with wait4(). Also used in procfs. Also
+ * pins the final release of task.io_context. Also protects ->cpuset and
+ * ->cgroup.subsys[]. And ->vfork_done.
+ *
+ * Nests both inside and outside of read_lock(&tasklist_lock).
+ * It must not be nested with write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock),
+ * neither inside nor outside.
+ */
+static inline void task_lock(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ spin_lock(&p->alloc_lock);
+}
+
+static inline void task_unlock(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ spin_unlock(&p->alloc_lock);
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_TASK_H */