[PATCH] add schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() interfaces

Add schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() interfaces so that
schedule_timeout() callers don't have to worry about forgetting to add the
set_current_state() call beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 13e2b513be01..a0b716d62701 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1154,6 +1154,20 @@ fastcall signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout);
 
+signed long __sched schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout)
+{
+       set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+       return schedule_timeout(timeout);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_interruptible);
+
+signed long __sched schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout)
+{
+       set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+       return schedule_timeout(timeout);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_uninterruptible);
+
 /* Thread ID - the internal kernel "pid" */
 asmlinkage long sys_gettid(void)
 {