# Re: \[PATCH 4/6\] sched: Add get\_current\_state()

- From: Mathieu Desnoyers \<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com\>
- Date: 2021-06-02 14:01:37 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/06/206985
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/06/206979/t.md

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----- On Jun 2, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org wrote:

> Remove yet another few p->state accesses.

[...]

> 
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ struct task_group;
> 
> #endif
> 
> +#define get_current_state()	READ_ONCE(current->state)

Why use a macro rather than a static inline here ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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