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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 19:56:49 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/86] Revert "livepatch,sched: Add livepatch task
switching to cond_resched()"
On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:51:18 -0800
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org> wrote:
> > I guess I'm not fully understanding what the cond rescheds are for. But
> > would an IPI to all CPUs setting NEED_RESCHED, fix it?
>
> If all livepatch arches had the ORC unwinder, yes.
>
> The problem is that frame pointer (and similar) unwinders can't reliably
> unwind past an interrupt frame.
Perhaps we can use this to push those archs with bad unwinders to port over
ORC unwinding ;-)
-- Steve
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