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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, qais.yousef@arm.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, airlied@redhat.com,
	alexander.deucher@amd.com, awalls@md.metrocast.net,
	axboe@kernel.dk, broonie@kernel.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hverkuil@xs4all.nl,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, nico@fluxnic.net,
	rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk,
	sudeep.holla@arm.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org,
	wim@linux-watchdog.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/23] sched: Provide sched_set_fifo()
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:40:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200422164030.GA17661@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200422123331.30b00018@gandalf.local.home>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:33:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:50:06 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, an extreme form of insanity would be required to try to make core
> > RCU be a module.  Not that such a form of insanity is a bad thing in and
> > of itself, but it might best be directed towards less futile ventures.  ;-)
> 
> That's like making the core of mutexes a module. How would that ever work
> (without becoming a microkernel).

Someone somewhere has probably done it.  Perhaps you really could make
mutexes be a module within the Linux kernel using kpatch or similar.
Sort of, anyway.

Not saying it is not insane, mind you!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-22 11:27 [PATCH 00/23] sched: Remove FIFO priorities from modules Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 01/23] sched: Provide sched_set_fifo() Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:11   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 13:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:50       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 16:33         ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-22 16:40           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-04-22 16:46             ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-22 17:45               ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 15:50   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-27 17:04   ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 02/23] sched,bL_switcher: Convert to sched_set_fifo*() Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:27   ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 03/23] sched,crypto: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:33   ` Herbert Xu
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 04/23] sched,acpi_pad: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 16:45   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-23  8:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 05/23] sched,drbd: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23  8:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 06/23] sched,psci: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:55   ` Valentin Schneider
2020-04-22 14:06   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-27 16:35   ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-27 16:58     ` Valentin Schneider
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 07/23] sched,msm: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 08/23] sched,drm/scheduler: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 09/23] sched,ivtv: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 12:53   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-22 13:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-24  9:58   ` Hans Verkuil
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 10/23] sched,mmc: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 16:59   ` Ulf Hansson
2020-04-23  8:59     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-23 12:01       ` Ulf Hansson
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 11/23] sched,spi: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:56   ` Mark Brown
2020-04-22 14:35     ` Doug Anderson
2020-04-22 15:47       ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-22 16:41         ` Doug Anderson
2020-04-22 20:16           ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 12/23] sched,powercap: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 13/23] sched,ion: Convert to sched_set_normal() Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:21   ` Vincent Guittot
2020-04-22 13:29     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 13:36       ` Vincent Guittot
2020-04-22 13:59         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:09           ` Vincent Guittot
2020-04-22 15:39             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:52               ` Vincent Guittot
2020-04-22 15:38           ` Juri Lelli
2020-04-22 15:42             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 14/23] sched,powerclamp: Convert to sched_set_fifo() Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 15/23] sched,serial: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 16/23] sched,watchdog: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 12:51   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-22 13:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-05-16  8:42       ` Christophe Leroy
2025-05-16 12:42         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 17/23] sched,irq: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 18/23] sched,locktorture: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 19/23] sched,rcuperf: Convert to sched_set_fifo_low() Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 20/23] sched,rcutorture: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 21/23] sched,psi: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 15:22   ` Johannes Weiner
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 22/23] sched: Remove sched_setscheduler*() EXPORTs Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 11:27 ` [PATCH 23/23] sched: Remove sched_set_*() return value Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-22 14:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-04-22 16:16   ` Paul E. McKenney

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