On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/03, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >> >> On 11/03, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> > >> > And do we ever have TF set during a context switch? I hope not. >> >> I too hope. >> >> > Also, what's with 'jmp exit_intr' at the end of retint_kernel? Why >> > isn't that 'jmp retint_kernel'? >> >> Even better, why not "jmp retint_restore_args" ? >> >> preempt_schedule_irq() checks need_resched() and returns with irqs >> disabled, not need to to recheck test_preempt_need_resched() ?
Seems reasonable to me. Want to write the patch? > > Btw, why retint_kernel() checks "interrupts on" ? It seems to me that > that "interrupts off" is not possible, no? And this will be more clear > when we remove the "exit_intr" label. We might get there from #MC or from any of a number of synchronous errors (#GP from xyz_safe, #PF from some atomic uaccess thing or a vmap fault, etc), and all of those have interrupts off. --Andy > > Oleg. > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
