[PATCH] fix bug in yield()

Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org)
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:56:04 +1000 (EST)


This patch makes yield() actually call schedule.

Without this patch, 2.4.20-pre3 will hang on boot for me, looping in
spawn_ksoftirqd waiting for ksoftirqd to start and calling yield().
ksoftirqd never gets to run, however, because yield never actually
calls schedule. (Note that sys_sched_yield as a syscall is OK because
the syscall exit path will check current->need_resched and call
schedule).

Paul.

diff -urN linux-2.4/kernel/sched.c pmac/kernel/sched.c
--- linux-2.4/kernel/sched.c Wed Aug 7 18:10:01 2002
+++ pmac/kernel/sched.c Mon Aug 19 10:39:39 2002
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@
{
set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
sys_sched_yield();
+ schedule();
}

void __cond_resched(void)

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