On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Add the TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag to enable the new livepatch > > per-task consistency model for x86_64. The bit getting set indicates > > the thread has a pending patch which needs to be applied when the thread > > exits the kernel. > > > > The bit is placed in the least-significant word of the thread_info flags > > NAK to that part. > > The least-significant word thing is a huge hack that has gotten out of > control. Please add the thing explicitly to all relevant masks.
Yeah, it is quite dangerous. I'll make it explicit, and make all the other _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicit while I'm at it. -- Josh
