sched, hw-branch-tracer: add wait_task_context_switch() function to sched.h
Add a function to wait until some other task has been
switched out at least once.
This differs from wait_task_inactive() subtly, in that the
latter will wait until the task has left the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144549.794157000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 6cc1fd5..f91bc81 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2003,6 +2003,49 @@
}
/*
+ * wait_task_context_switch - wait for a thread to complete at least one
+ * context switch.
+ *
+ * @p must not be current.
+ */
+void wait_task_context_switch(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw, flags;
+ int running;
+ struct rq *rq;
+
+ nvcsw = p->nvcsw;
+ nivcsw = p->nivcsw;
+ for (;;) {
+ /*
+ * The runqueue is assigned before the actual context
+ * switch. We need to take the runqueue lock.
+ *
+ * We could check initially without the lock but it is
+ * very likely that we need to take the lock in every
+ * iteration.
+ */
+ rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
+ running = task_running(rq, p);
+ task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
+
+ if (likely(!running))
+ break;
+ /*
+ * The switch count is incremented before the actual
+ * context switch. We thus wait for two switches to be
+ * sure at least one completed.
+ */
+ if ((p->nvcsw - nvcsw) > 1)
+ break;
+ if ((p->nivcsw - nivcsw) > 1)
+ break;
+
+ cpu_relax();
+ }
+}
+
+/*
* wait_task_inactive - wait for a thread to unschedule.
*
* If @match_state is nonzero, it's the @p->state value just checked and