kernel/thread: Expand documentation of nominal_priority and current_priority

Aims to disambiguate why each priority instance exists a little bit.
While we're at it, also add an explanatory comment to UpdatePriority().
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Lioncash 2019-03-14 21:58:23 -04:00
parent e0d1f11968
commit db47d7e471
2 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -303,7 +303,9 @@ void Thread::RemoveMutexWaiter(SharedPtr<Thread> thread) {
}
void Thread::UpdatePriority() {
// Find the highest priority among all the threads that are waiting for this thread's lock
// If any of the threads waiting on the mutex have a higher priority
// (taking into account priority inheritance), then this thread inherits
// that thread's priority.
u32 new_priority = nominal_priority;
if (!wait_mutex_threads.empty()) {
if (wait_mutex_threads.front()->current_priority < new_priority) {