comment about sched() saving/restoring cpu->intena

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/proc.c b/proc.c
index 751d886..9e95529 100644
--- a/proc.c
+++ b/proc.c
@@ -302,7 +302,12 @@ scheduler(void)
 }
 
 // Enter scheduler.  Must hold only ptable.lock
-// and have changed proc->state.
+// and have changed proc->state. Saves and restores
+// intena because intena is a property of this
+// kernel thread, not this CPU. It should
+// be proc->intena and proc->ncli, but that would
+// break in the few places where a lock is held but
+// there's no process.
 void
 sched(void)
 {