On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A preempted function might not have had a chance to save the frame > pointer to the stack yet, which can result in its caller getting skipped > on a stack trace. > > Add a flag to indicate when the task has been preempted so that stack > dump code can determine whether the stack trace is reliable. I think I like this, but how do you handle the rather similar case in which a task goes to sleep because it's waiting on IO that happened in response to get_user, put_user, copy_from_user, etc? --Andy -- 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
