70 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
70 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: need_resched.9,v 1.2 2002/09/27 08:38:58 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Gregory McGarry.
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.\"
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.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
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.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
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.Dd September 21, 2002
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.Dt NEED_RESCHED 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm need_resched
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.Nd context switch notification
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/cpu.h\*[Gt]
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.Ft void
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.Fn need_resched "struct cpu_info *ci"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn need_resched
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function is the machine-independent interface for the scheduler to
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notify machine-dependent code that a context switch from the current
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process is required.
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This event may occur if a higher priority process appears on the run
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queue or if the current process has exceeded its time slice.
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.Pp
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Specifically, the
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.Fn need_resched
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function will perform the following operations:
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.Bl -bullet -indent
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.It
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Set a global flag which is checked by
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.Xr userret 9
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when returning to user-mode execution.
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.It
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Post an asynchronous software trap (AST).
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr scheduler 9 ,
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.Xr userret 9
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