On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:15:18AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Oh -- does it need to sleep?
Oh yeah, iterates over all tasks and generally async access to VM stuff.
You can have a look if bored: mm/memory-failure.c
:-)
> I find myself wondering whether a much cleaner solution might be to
> sync regs and switch stacks before invoking do_machine_check rather
> than afterwards. Then do_machine_check would really be completely
> non-atomic. It would add a few lines of asm, though.
That's like wagging the dog.
I'd prefer much more to actually have a mechanism to do something to
tasks before scheduling them in.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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