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/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b94f354..a5b9a83 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1993,8 +1993,10 @@
extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern void wait_task_context_switch(struct task_struct *p);
extern unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *, long match_state);
#else
+static inline void wait_task_context_switch(struct task_struct *p) {}
static inline unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p,
long match_state)
{