On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:47:39PM -0700, 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. This would probably be useful for arm64. There's still a reasonable amount to figure out (e.g. [1,2]), so from my PoV this is a nice-to-have, but there's no pressure. Thanks, Mark. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/11/193 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/11/483 -- 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
