RE: [PATCH v2] ACPI: APEI: do not add task_work to kernel thread to avoid memory leak
From: Luck, Tony
Date: Thu Sep 29 2022 - 16:52:29 EST
Thanks for your patient explanations.
> STEP2: In IRQ context, ghes_proc_in_irq() queues memory failure work on current CPU
> in workqueue and add task work to sync with the workqueue.
Why is there a difference if the interrupted task was a user task vs. a kernel thread?
It seems arbitrary. If the error can be handled in the kernel thread case without
a task_work_add() to the current process, can't all errors be handled this way?
The current thread likely has nothing to do with the error. Just a matter of chance
on what is running when the NMI is delivered, right?
-Tony