Re: sched: horrible way to detect whether a task has been preempted

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> To do that from C code, I guess we'd still need some arch-specific code
> in an asm() statement to do the actual push?

This could potentially be worked around I believe (thinking for example of 
a onstack-allocated local variable with predefined contents that the 
compiler would not be allowed to optimize out; certainly not the only 
option).

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs