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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org,
	chris@zankel.net
Subject: Re: TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME [was Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] task_work_queue: add generic process-context callbacks]
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:41:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120412174107.GB24541@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9335.1334223342@redhat.com>

On 04/12, David Howells wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > +#ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
>
> If we're going to keep this feature, I wonder if it's worth just requiring the
> arches lacking this feature to add it at this point, rather than adding all
> this conditional logic.

Yes, agreed. But until we update m68k/xtensa task_work has to check
if it is defined.

I'll try to cleanup this in v3. In fact, task_work_queue() makes sense
even without TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, just it lacks set_notify_resume().

> It doesn't look like it should be too hard for m68k, but xtensa looks tricky.

I was going to add the maintainers ;)

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-12  2:47 [PATCH v2 0/2] task_work_queue() && keyctl_session_to_parent() Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  2:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] task_work_queue: add generic process-context callbacks Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  4:00   ` hlist_for_each_entry && pos (Was: task_work_queue) Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  4:12     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12  4:28       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  4:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12  5:02           ` Al Viro
2012-04-16 22:35     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-04-17 20:43       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  9:35   ` TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME [was Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] task_work_queue: add generic process-context callbacks] David Howells
2012-04-12 17:41     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-04-12  2:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] cred: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_queue() Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-12  9:29   ` David Howells
2012-04-12 17:34     ` Oleg Nesterov

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