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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 12:29:03 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On 04/05, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> As is, I think we can write task_is_stopped() like:
>
> #define task_is_stopped(task)	((task)->jobctl & JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING)
>
> Because jobctl is in fact the canonical state.

Not really. JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING means that the task should stop.

And this flag is cleared right before set_special_state(TASK_STOPPED)
in do_signal_stop(), see task_participate_group_stop().

Oleg.