include/asm-generic/switch_to.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

include/asm-generic/switch_to.h

Extension

.h

Size

755 bytes

Lines

27

Domain

Repository Root And Misc

Bucket

include

Inferred role

Repository Root And Misc: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Top-level or miscellaneous repository surface. Use this as map coverage unless a later manual pass promotes the file into a deeper subsystem dossier.

• Top-level or miscellaneous repository surface. Use this as map coverage unless a later manual pass promotes the file into a deeper subsystem dossier.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• linux/thread_info.h

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_SWITCH_TO_H
#define __ASM_GENERIC_SWITCH_TO_H

#include <linux/thread_info.h>

/*
 * Context switching is now performed out-of-line in switch_to.S
 */
extern struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *,
				       struct task_struct *);

#define switch_to(prev, next, last)					\
	do {								\
		((last) = __switch_to((prev), (next)));			\
	} while (0)

#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_SWITCH_TO_H */

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `linux/thread_info.h`.
• Atlas domain: Repository Root And Misc / include.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.