sched: Update yield() docs

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331056466.11248.327.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 8781cec7c3e6..47614a5cdd47 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4577,8 +4577,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cond_resched_softirq);
 /**
  * yield - yield the current processor to other threads.
  *
- * This is a shortcut for kernel-space yielding - it marks the
- * thread runnable and calls sys_sched_yield().
+ * Do not ever use this function, there's a 99% chance you're doing it wrong.
+ *
+ * The scheduler is at all times free to pick the calling task as the most
+ * eligible task to run, if removing the yield() call from your code breaks
+ * it, its already broken.
+ *
+ * Typical broken usage is:
+ *
+ * while (!event)
+ *      yield();
+ *
+ * where one assumes that yield() will let 'the other' process run that will
+ * make event true. If the current task is a SCHED_FIFO task that will never
+ * happen. Never use yield() as a progress guarantee!!
+ *
+ * If you want to use yield() to wait for something, use wait_event().
+ * If you want to use yield() to be 'nice' for others, use cond_resched().
+ * If you still want to use yield(), do not!
  */
 void __sched yield(void)
 {