livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model

Jiri Kosina jikos at kernel.org
Thu May 19 06:22:33 AEST 2016


On Wed, 18 May 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Yeah, I think this situation -- a task sleeping on an affected function 
> in uninterruptible state for a long period of time -- would be 
> exceedingly rare and not something we need to worry about for now.

Plus in case task'd be in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for more than 120s, hung 
task detector would trigger anyway.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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