On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Had to read this twice, because the comment and the code are both correct
> but deal with the inverse case. This might have helped:
>
> /*
> * Immediately update the speculation MSRs on the current task,
> * but for non-current tasks delay setting the CPU mitigation
> * until it is scheduled next.
> */
> if (tsk == current && update)
> speculation_ctrl_update_current();
>
> But can the target task ever be non-current here? I don't think so: the
> two callers are prctl and seccomp, and both are passing in the current
> task pointer.
See te other mail. Yes, seccomp passes non current task pointers. Will
update the comment.
Thanks,
tglx
