> This is an update of task isolation work that was originally done by > Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> and maintained by him until > November 2017. It is adapted to the current kernel and cleaned up to > make this functionality both more complete (as in, prevent isolation > breaking in situations that were not covered before) and cleaner (as > in, avoid any dubious or fragile use of kernel interfaces, and provide > clean and reliable isolation breaking procedure). > > I guess, I have to explain why such a thing exists. > > ... > > My thanks to Chris Metcalf for design and maintenance of the original > task isolation patch, Francis Giraldeau <francis.giraldeau@xxxxxxxxx> > and Yuri Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxx> for various contributions to this > work, and Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> for his work on > CPU isolation and housekeeping that made possible to remove some less > elegant solutions that I had to devise for earlier, <4.17 kernels. > > The previous patch (v16 by Chris Metcalf) is at: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1509728692-10460-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Alex, For patches that are not authored by you, you removed authors' SOB, like in patch 8 of this series. Please CC me for next revisions. Thanks, Yury