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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it>,
	Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Early task context tracking
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:42:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190404094226.GV4038@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXUx7ExeqERxwu7nfps9vhZhQbfNEFG5fD_Kp7RexCEcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:01:02PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I would much rather do the opposite: completely remove context
> tracking from the asm and, instead, stick it into the C code.  We'd
> need to make sure that the C code is totally immune from tracing,
> kprobes, etc, but it would be a nice cleanup.  And then you could fix
> this bug in C!

Right, so you had some prelim patches toward that a few weeks ago. Esp.
for the idtentry stuff that looked fairly straight forward.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-04  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-02 20:03 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Early task context tracking Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] x86/entry: Add support for early " Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] trace: Move the trace recursion context enum to trace.h and reuse it Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] trace: Optimize trace_get_context_bit() Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] trace/ring_buffer: Use trace_get_context_bit() Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] trace: Use early task context tracking if available Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] events: Create an trace_get_context_bit() Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-02 20:03 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] events: Use early task context tracking if available Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-04  0:01 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Early task context tracking Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-04  9:42   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-04-08 12:47   ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2019-04-08 16:08     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-04 17:40 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-08 12:54   ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira

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