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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c index e49fbe901cfc..16a8cf02eee9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c @@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ static int benchmark_event_kthread(void *arg) trace_do_benchmark(); /* - * We don't go to sleep, but let others - * run as well. + * We don't go to sleep, but let others run as well. + * This is bascially a "yield()" to let any task that + * wants to run, schedule in, but if the CPU is idle, + * we'll keep burning cycles. + * + * Note the _rcu_qs() version of cond_resched() will + * notify synchronize_rcu_tasks() that this thread has + * passed a quiescent state for rcu_tasks. Otherwise + * this thread will never voluntarily schedule which would + * block synchronize_rcu_tasks() indefinitely. */ - cond_resched(); + cond_resched_rcu_qs(); } return 0; |