Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] livepatch: hybrid consistency model

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Sat Dec 10 2016 - 00:47:02 EST


On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 12:08 -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Dusting the cobwebs off the consistency model again.ÂÂThis is based on
> linux-next/master.
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> v1 was posted on 2015-02-09:
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> Â https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1423499826.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
>Â
> v2 was posted on 2016-04-28:
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> Â https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1461875890.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
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> The biggest issue from v2 was finding a decent way to detect preemption
> and page faults on the stack of a sleeping task.ÂÂ

Could you please elaborate on this? Preemption of a sleeping task and
faults as in the future (time) preemption and faults?

Balbir Singh.