Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] possible SMP races all over the place in wait_event |
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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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