sched: add schedule_timeout_idle()

This will be needed in the patch "mm, oom: introduce oom reaper".

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ extern signed long schedule_timeout(signed long timeout);
 extern signed long schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout);
 extern signed long schedule_timeout_killable(signed long timeout);
 extern signed long schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout);
+extern signed long schedule_timeout_idle(signed long timeout);
 asmlinkage void schedule(void);
 extern void schedule_preempt_disabled(void);
 

kernel/time/timer.c

@@ -1566,6 +1566,17 @@ signed long __sched schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_uninterruptible);
 
+/*
+ * Like schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(), except this task will not contribute
+ * to load average.
+ */
+signed long __sched schedule_timeout_idle(signed long timeout)
+{
+	__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
+	return schedule_timeout(timeout);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_idle);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 static void migrate_timer_list(struct tvec_base *new_base, struct hlist_head *head)
 {