try_to_wake_up() would only return a success when it would have to place a task on a rq, change that to every time we change p->state to TASK_RUNNING, because that's the real measure of wakeups. This results in that success is always true for the tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand --- kernel/sched.c | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -2383,10 +2383,10 @@ static inline void ttwu_activate(struct activate_task(rq, p, en_flags); } -static inline void ttwu_post_activation(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq, - int wake_flags, bool success) +static void +ttwu_post_activation(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq, int wake_flags) { - trace_sched_wakeup(p, success); + trace_sched_wakeup(p, true); check_preempt_curr(rq, p, wake_flags); p->state = TASK_RUNNING; @@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ static inline void ttwu_post_activation( } #endif /* if a worker is waking up, notify workqueue */ - if ((p->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) && success) + if (p->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) wq_worker_waking_up(p, cpu_of(rq)); } @@ -2505,9 +2505,9 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(struct task_st #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ ttwu_activate(p, rq, wake_flags & WF_SYNC, orig_cpu != cpu, cpu == this_cpu, en_flags); - success = 1; out_running: - ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, wake_flags, success); + ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, wake_flags); + success = 1; out: task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags); put_cpu(); @@ -2526,7 +2526,6 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(struct task_st static void try_to_wake_up_local(struct task_struct *p) { struct rq *rq = task_rq(p); - bool success = false; BUG_ON(rq != this_rq()); BUG_ON(p == current); @@ -2541,9 +2540,8 @@ static void try_to_wake_up_local(struct schedstat_inc(rq, ttwu_local); } ttwu_activate(p, rq, false, false, true, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP); - success = true; } - ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, 0, success); + ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, 0); } /** @@ -2705,7 +2703,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags); activate_task(rq, p, 0); - trace_sched_wakeup_new(p, 1); + trace_sched_wakeup_new(p, true); check_preempt_curr(rq, p, WF_FORK); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP if (p->sched_class->task_woken)