sched: Clean up the might_sleep() underscore zoo
__might_sleep() vs. ___might_sleep() is hard to distinguish. Aside of that the three underscore variant is exposed to provide a checkpoint for rescheduling points which are distinct from blocking points. They are semantically a preemption point which means that scheduling is state preserving. A real blocking operation, e.g. mutex_lock(), wait*(), which cannot preserve a task state which is not equal to RUNNING. While technically blocking on a "sleeping" spinlock in RT enabled kernels falls into the voluntary scheduling category because it has to wait until the contended spin/rw lock becomes available, the RT lock substitution code can semantically be mapped to a voluntary preemption because the RT lock substitution code and the scheduler are providing mechanisms to preserve the task state and to take regular non-lock related wakeups into account. Rename ___might_sleep() to __might_resched() to make the distinction of these functions clear. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923165357.928693482@linutronix.de
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