Re: [PATCH] Fix x86_64 page fault scheduler race

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > the scheduler disables interrupts around __switch_to(). (x86 does 
> > not set __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW)
> 
> Ok, so I guess it's only useful to NMIs then. However, it makes me 
> wonder why this comment was there in the first place on x86_32 
> vmalloc_fault() and why it uses read_cr3() :
> 
>         * Do _not_ use "current" here. We might be inside
>         * an interrupt in the middle of a task switch..

hm, i guess it's still useful to keep the 
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW case working too. On -rt we used to 
enable it to squeeze a tiny bit more latency out of the system.

	Ingo
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