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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC v2 tip/core/rcu 01/22] sched/core: Add function to sample state of locked-down task
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:49:43 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:

> > The current setup is very convenient for the use cases thus far. It
> > allows the function to say "Yeah, I was called, but I couldn't do
> > anything", thus allowing the caller to make exactly one check to know
> > that corrective action is required.
>
> And here is another use case that led me to take this approach.
> The trc_inspect_reader_notrunning() function in the patch below is passed
> to try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() whose caller can continue testing
> just the return value from try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() to work out
> what to do next.
>
> Thoughts? Other use cases?

Note, I made this comment before looking at the use cases in the later
patches. I was looking at it for a more generic purpose, but I'm not
sure there is one.

It's fine as is for now.

-- Steve

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