[PATCH v5 13/15] livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Thu Jan 25 23:44:03 AEDT 2018


On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:13:21PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > What I was getting at, the klp stuff is the very first thing we run when
> > we schedule the idle task, but its placed at the very end of the
> > function. This is confusing.
> 
> I see.
> 
> 
> > The above still doesn't help with solving that. Do you want to run
> > something before we go idle, or before we leave idle, in neither cases
> > would I place it where it is.
> 
> In fact, both ways are fine. We require going the idle task
> through the entire cycle anyway. It is because both situations,
> too long idling or non-idling, would block finishing the patch
> transition.
> 
> Feel free to move it right before schedule_idle() or
> __current_set_polling().

OK, I'll move it. Thanks!


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