Re: [PATCH 4/7] x86: Add support for rd/wr fs/gs base

Andi Kleen
2014-05-01T21:51:42Z

> Allowing userspace to prevent itself from being rescheduled by loading
> something strange into gsbase seems unfortunate.

The timer tick will eventually catch it, so any delay is tightly
bounded.

Also still gets rescheduled most of the time, just not when a paranoid
exception handler is running.

-Andi