On 07/12/2011 12:41 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Using TIF_bits sounds like a much better solution for this, wakeups are > really rather expensive and its best to avoid extra if at all possible. I would rather vote for Avi's solution too. Such a functionality is very helpful for LWP-perf integration as well (because we need a way to call do_mmap for a task != current).
It's not needed for that. See use_mm() (caller must be a kernel thread). -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
