On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > > Alternatively, without eating up a TIF_ space, it'd be possible to push a > > magic contents on top of the stack in preempt_schedule_irq() (and pop it > > once we are returning from there), and if such magic value is detected, we > > just don't bother and claim unreliability. > > Ah, but wouldn't we still have to walk through the frames (i.e. enter > the loop in patch 7/14) to look for the magic value in this approach? The idea was that it'd be located at a place to which saved stack pointer of the sleeping task is pointing to (or at a fixed offset from it). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
