On 07/19/2016 01:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi all- > > There are four core patches needed for the THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK thing, > and they apply cleanly to -mm now. The x86 patch to flip the feature > on does not apply cleanly anywhere because it depends on changes in > -tip *and* in -mm. I'd like to get all of this as well as the rest of > the vmap-stacks stuff in by 4.9, but I'm wondering if it might make > sense to get the core THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK stuff into -mm for 4.8 > instead. > > Pros: > - It reduces the amount of core code that -tip will have to carry until 4.9. > - It may benefit other architectures. Christian Borntraeger > expressed an interest in enabling the feature for s390, but it'll be > awkward for him until the core bit landed. Similarly, arm64 seems to > be interested. I have not yet talked to Martin/Heiko about this, so not sure yet if and when s390 is going to use this - so no pressure from our side yet. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
