linux-kernel - Re: sched: horrible way to detect whether a task has been preempted

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Date:	Fri, 8 Apr 2016 00:53:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
cc:	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.com>
Subject: Re: sched: horrible way to detect whether a task has been
 preempted

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> To do that from C code, I guess we'd still need some arch-specific code
> in an asm() statement to do the actual push?

This could potentially be worked around I believe (thinking for example of 
a onstack-allocated local variable with predefined contents that the 
compiler would not be allowed to optimize out; certainly not the only 
option).

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs