linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] kernel: add support for TIF_NOTIFY

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Date:   Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:56:17 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] kernel: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

On 10/15/20 8:53 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/15, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> On 10/15, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>
>>> That is indeed a worry. From a functionality point of view, with the
>>> major archs supporting it, I'm not too worried about that side. But it
>>> does mean that we'll be stuck with the ifdeffery forever, which isn't
>>> great.
>>
>> plus we can't kill the ugly JOBCTL_TASK_WORK.
> 
> not to mention we can not change freezer/livepatch to use NOTIFY_SIGNAL,
> or add new users of set_notify_signal().

Yeah I know, there's a whole slew of cleanups and code removal that
can happen after this series, once all archs are converted. See:

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=tif-task_work.arch

which is all of that on top of this series.

-- 
Jens Axboe