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

Balbir Singh
2016-12-10T05:46:17Z

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

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

Balbir Singh.