Kernel thread scheduling

[Ruben Safir]

On 04/16/2015 02:32 PM, John de la Garza wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:56:46AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> I'm trying to find rb_node's structure and I can't find it with ctags or
>> in the http://lxr.linux.no website.
>>
>>
>> How do you search these things out?
> 


That is truly beautiful.  Is that documented anywhere in plain english?

Ruben

> I run:
> 	make ctags
> 
> run vim
> 
> type:
> 	:ts rb_node
> 
> then I scanned the list for things that are from include/linux
> 
> and found this
>  20 F   s    rb_node           include/linux/rbtree.h
>                struct rb_node {
> 
> I select 20 and it takes me to include/linux/rbtree.h
> 
> and puts me at the line containing this:
> 
> 	struct rb_node {
> 		unsigned long  __rb_parent_color;
> 		struct rb_node *rb_right;
> 		struct rb_node *rb_left;
> 	} __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long))));
> 	  /* The alignment might seem pointless, but allegedly CRIS needs it */
> 
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