linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT 3/5] allow preemption in check_task

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Message-ID: <20140214132240.GH28438@linutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:22:40 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
Cc:	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andreas Platschek <platschek@....tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 3/5] allow preemption in check_task_state

* Nicholas Mc Guire | 2014-02-10 17:28:16 [+0100]:

>A lockfree approach to check_task_state

I ignore this due to was has been written in the thread "allow
preemption in check_task_state" for now.

Also I just want to state that this function is hardly used on regular
basis except for ptrace attach case which ends up beeing a power user in
the test case mentioned.

Sebastian
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